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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



Contributions to the Observatory. 

 Air. J. R. de la Torre Bueno, 



White Plains, N. Y $ i.oo 



Mr. Frederick A. Hubbard, Green- 

 wich I.oo 



Mr. Irving Bacheller, Riverside, 



Conn lo.oo 



Mrs. John Elbert White, Green- 

 wich I.oo 



A Friend ( Increase — total $4.00) ., . 2.00 

 Mr. Fred C. Binney, Sound Beach. 5.00 

 Mr. J. D. Sawyer, New York City 2.00 

 Mr. S. M. Boschnogel, Sauders- 



burg", Penn i.oo 



Mr. J. K. Lawrence, Stamford. . . . 2.00 



Mr. E. N. Fast, Stamford i.oo 



Mr. Geo. W. Lockwood, Stamford i.oo 

 Mr. B. Frank Finney, Greenwich. . i.oo 

 Miss Frances H. Errett, Newtown, 



Ohio 25.00 



Brady & Chadeayne, Stamford. . . . 5.00 

 Mr. George Lauder, Jr., Greenwich 25.00 

 Mr. Charles H. Knapp, Sound 



Beach io.od 



Air. Chas. O. Trowbridge, Fram- 



ingham Center, Mass i.oo 



Air. Arthur L. DeGrofif, Newark. 



N. T 25.00 



Airs. 'R. G. Hinton, Hartford, 



Conn I.oo 



Air. Walter F. Alortimer, Sound 



Beach 2.00 



Air. AI. G. Allyn, Riverside. Conn, i.oo 

 Air. S. C. Hunter, New Rochelle, 



N. Y 50.00 



Air. Samuel Phillips. Stamford... i.oo 

 Airs. Grace Lee Smidt, Sound 



Beach 10.00 



Aliss Sarah Root Adams, Portland, 

 Alaine 20 



Total $184.20 



Previously acknowledged 322.00 



Grand Total $506.20 



The Starry Heavens in August. 



BY PROF. KRIC DOOLITTLK OF THE UNI- 

 VFRSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



DOUBTLESS the most interesting 

 astronomical occurrence of the 

 present month is the entrance of 

 the beautiful planet Jupiter into our eve- 

 ning sky. If during the last few weeks 

 the reader has happened to glance at a 

 late hour of the evening toward the 

 eastern heavens, he cannot have failed to 

 notice this most brilliant object there, 

 well up from the ground, and shining 

 with sixteen times the brightness of a 

 first magnitude star. But not until the 

 first of the present month does this most 

 wonderful and interesting world — by 

 far the largest of all the worlds which 

 circle around our sun — enter the bor- 

 ders of our evening sky map. For the 

 remainder of the present year it will re- 

 main the most conspicuous object in the 

 evening heavens. 



This month is also signalized by the 

 passage of the moon over the bright 

 star Antares and by the occurrence of 

 an eclipse of the sun, but unfortunately 

 neither of these interesting phenomena 

 will be visible to observers within the 

 borders of the United States. 



THE AUGUST STARS. 

 There have been many interesting 

 changes in the face of the evening heav- 

 ens since last month. The great Leo, 

 the very last of the winter groups, has 

 disappeared ; the preceding stars of the 

 very large group, Virgo, are beginning 

 to set, and there no longer remains the 

 least trace of the long, straggling con- 

 stellation known as the Water Snake. 

 Hercules and Corona no longer occupy 

 the highest point of the heavens, but 

 they, as well as the brilliant Scorpio, 

 Opiiiuchus and Bootes, have moved far 

 toward the west. The long train of 

 bright groups along the Alilky Way are 

 now all near the meridian, while Aquari- 

 us, the beautiful Andromeda and the 



