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A. TANAKADATD AXD H. NAGAOKA 



Nagoya observations certainly, it is more than can be ascribed to the 

 displacement of the instrument, as the îjzimuth determined on the two 

 successive nights, one l^efore and the other after the event, agreed 

 within 6": on both nights the transits of 7 stars were taken, tlie 

 reduction sheet of which Ave here append. 



Nagoya : December 24.3 



Chronometer mean solar, No. 15U4 Negus. 

 Observer, A. Tanakaclate 



h m 



Observations reduced to 8 40. local sidereal time. 



"Whence 



- 1.379 c + 7.110 a =-- + 5.69 



+ 12.90'J c - 1.18G a= - 3.93. 



ft - + o'.7G = + ll."3 ; Azimuth reading GT 7' 50" 



c= - 0.23 + 11" 



Meridian reading G F 7' Gl" 



