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its normal light. Observations of the maximum light would have had 

 comparatively little value. 



The times of minima on IVIay 11 and May 18, 1795, are somewhat 

 uncertain, since the assumed light of the comparison stars may be in 

 error. All the stars with which 5 Librae was compared have ac- 

 cordingly been arranged in sequences by Mr. Chandler, since the 

 above reduction has been made. The details of these observations 

 will be published elsewhere, but they give a correction for the minima 

 of May 11 and May 18 of —2.3 and —2.5, instead of —4.8 and 

 — 3.0 hours. 



