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TRANS. ST. LOUIS ACAD. SCIENCE. 



This table is calculated for the first of July of each year, and is 

 taken from a table prepared at the U. S. Coast Survey Office. 



The following table, from the same source, gives the time of 

 elongation of the pole star from April, 1878, to April, 1888, and 

 between the latitudes 26° and 50° N., with an error of less than 

 five minutes. The time is local astronomical time. 

 Eastern Elongations. 



The reductions and results of the declination work are given in a 

 table at the close of this report, and the lines of equal declination 

 are also represented in a chart. No further discussion is neces- 

 sary until the completion of the survey. 



Just prior to engaging in the work of 1879, ^"^^ while eng 



