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and the lime stars (1G84 observations). The observations 

 for the catalogue will terminate in 1877. 



From a letter of Dr. Gould's we learn that the reductions 

 of these zones are in a forward state. All observations are 

 reduced to the middle of the field in both co-ordinates in 

 duplicate. The reduction to 1875.0 is completed for 700 

 zones out of the 754 ; At, c, and n are computed for all the 

 zones and two thirds of the refractions are completed. In 

 February the work of printing the first meteorological vol- 

 ume commenced. 



The maps of the Uranometry of the Southern Heavens, 

 made by Gould and his assistants at Cordoba, are now pre- 

 paring at Bien and Co.'s in New York. They are to be 

 lithographed, and each map will be about half the size of 

 the maps to the Durchmusterung. 



From the annual report of the Astronomer Royal to the 

 Board of Visitors we learn that the new nine-year catalogue 

 is well under way, and that Sir George Airy will publish his 

 numerical lunar theory as an appendix to the Greenwich 

 volume. 



The Paris Observatory continues the publication of ecliptic 

 charts compiled from observations of MM. Henry. 



Houzeau, of Brussels, has presented to the Belgian Acad- 

 emy a Uranometry of nearly 6000 naked-eye stars, which was 

 constructed by him during a residence of thirteen months in 

 the West Indies. It is presumed that this work will shortly 

 be published. 



The Cape of Good Hope Observatory has published a vol- 

 ume which contains the mean positions of 1246 stars, includ- 

 ing all of Lacaille's stars in the " Ccelum Australe Stellife- 

 rum," which now fall between 155 and 165 N. P. D., and 

 some additional ones in the same zone. Lacaille's stars be- 

 tween 145 and 155 N. P.D. were similarly observed in 1875, 

 and those between 135 and 145 in 1876. We shall soon, 

 therefore, have accurate places of all Lacaille's stars. 



" Although the observations of the moon, planets, and corn- 

 el s made at Kremsmunster have been published from time 

 to time, no publication of the results for stars has taken 

 place, with the exception of a catalogue of 208 stars, printed 

 in the Memoirs R. A. S., vol. xii. lleslhuber, however, re- 

 duced the observations of 560 stars to the epoch 1840; and 



