"Professor Karl Zitta of Breslau writes to the
Astronomische Nachrichten to claim the discovery
of a new asteroid observed by him on the night of
March 31st.


App. A. R. App. Decl.
Bresl. M. T. h. m. s. h. m. s. @ ' " Size.
March 31 12 53 51.9 15 39 52.32 -23 50 26.1 12.9
April 1 1 3 2.1 15 39 52.32 -23 9 1.9 12.9

He proposes for the asteroid the name of Phoebe. Dr.
Zitta states that in the short period which he had for
observing Phoebe, for an hour after midnight, her motion
in R. A. seemed slight and her motion in declination very
rapid."

After this, however, for months, nay even to this
moment, nothing more was heard of Dr. Zitta of Breslau.

But, one morning, before I was up, Haliburton came
banging at my door on D Street. The mood had taken him,
as he returned from some private theatricals at
Cambridge, to take the comfort of the new reading-room at
night, and thus express in practice his gratitude to the
overseers of the college for keeping it open through all
the twenty-four hours. Poor Haliburton, he did not sleep
well in those times! Well, as he read away on the
Astronomische Nachrichten itself, what should he find