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Death of Carlini.

--Foreign journals announce the decease of Carlini, the distinguished Italian astronomer and mathematician at Milan. For more than half a century he hold a prominent place among European scientists. His researches on the lunar theory, in connection with Baron Plana, and his pendulum experiments on Mount Cenis, to determine the mean density of the earth, having placed his name among the ablest contributors of science. His last labors were directed to the determination of the orbit of Tuttle's late comet, which had been early observed by Florentine and Roman astronomers.

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