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this fact to the Society, I presented three nearly identical series, the first 

 being determined solely by Jupiter, the second by Earth, and the third b}- 

 relations of planetary and solar masses.* I gave precedence to the first of 

 these series, both because of Jupiter's predominant importance and because 

 <>f the many planetary harmonies which are determined by Jupiter's mean 

 perihelion.! 



At the time of the late total solar eclipse, Watson and Swift each ob- 

 served two small planets between the orbit of Mercury and the Sun. By 

 comparing the published position of the planet which was first announced 

 by Watson, with some of the most trustworthy of the recorded observa- 

 tions which were thought by Leverrier to indicate intra-Mercurial tran- 

 sits, Gaillot and Mouchez found an orbital period of 24.25 days,:]: which 

 represents the third interior term of my series and the second strict verifi- 

 cation of my prediction. 



The relatively rapid motion of Phobos, the inner satellite of Mars, and the 

 probably meteoroidal nature of the corona, may reasonably lead us to look for 

 an indefinite number of further verifications in the results of future discovery. 

 No otherknown medium possesses so great a degree of elasticity as the hypo- 

 thetical luminiferous aether ; none other is, therefore, so well fitted for the 

 production of musical, or rhythmical harmonic vibrations. Numerous evi- 

 dences of intelligent arrangement and design have been pointed out in the 

 solar system. They all indicate important laws, but none show so close 

 and general accordance with actual planetary positions as those which 

 most accurately record the " music of the spheres. "§ 



I submit the following table, both as evidence of the foregoing statements 

 and as a possible help towards the discovery of new planets or the deter- 

 mination of their orbital periods. 



* Proc. Soc. Phil. Amer., xiii, 470, 17_. 

 t Ibid, 239. 



J: Comptes Remlus, 5 AotH, 1878. 

 {(Proc*. Soc. Phil. Amer. xiii, 171. 

 m, mean . p. pei'ihelion. 



