28 ART. 19. — N. ICIIINOHE : 



Although the southern astronomy developed rapidly, yet we 

 have only 28 Algols in the southern hemisphere against 65 in 

 the northern. Notwithstanding that we can not decide whether 

 this is due to the fact that the southern heaven is not fully 

 exj^lored or not, it would be more reasonable to suppose the 

 former be the case. Thus, I think further exploration will 

 produce some change to the values of the pole, as the present 

 number made some change on the result by Pickering. Thus, so 

 small a deviation of the pole of the Algols from that of the 

 galactic plane might be an accidental error caused by the 

 insufficient material to eliminate the effect of the systematic 

 discovery of the Algols and I think that Algols tend to 

 agglomerate toward the galaxy. Now let us transform the posi- 

 tion of the Algols into the galactic longitude and latitude, then 

 we would arrive at the result that the algols increase in number 

 as the position tends to the central line of the milky way. 



For the transformation, the pole of the milky way was 

 assumed, according to the result by Prof. Kobold's investigation, 



A = 191.5 

 D= 28.0 



in order to facilitate the transformation by the use of a graphical 

 table devised by M. Stroobant, in " Annales de l'Observatoire 

 Koyal de Belgique, Tome XI. 



Counting the number of stars in the order of the galactic 

 longitude in every half quadrant, we have the result. 



