OP ARTS AND SCIENCES. 

 Object a small and quite faint. 



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ab = 6^ a = 10'^ 6™. 



8 = 4-12° 20'—. 



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1873, Mar. 5.6. — Object fixed. 



Continue search from this setting of finder — beginning with paral- 

 lel of the wide pair. 8 = 4-12° 8'. 



Spent an hour or two in re-examining objects previously suspected. 

 Notes accompany each object examined. Found all fixed — many 

 small and faint nebulie. 



Feb. 11.6. — Object 10 lines above [xxiii], fixed — distance roughly 

 6*, by disai^pearance-transits. 



Object a (bottom preceding page [xxi]) precedes b 2S^3 ; (mean of 

 two eye-and-ear transits). It still has the same appearance — very like 

 that of a faint planet, with a small, ill-defined disk. 



An hour or so in examining other objects previously suspected. 

 Notes loco. Moon is beginning to interfere seriously. 



Feb. 2G.5. — Began search with power 400, at parallel 4-^° 30^ 

 going north. 



Object a suspected — not a good disk — only regular and nebulous. 



1878, Feb. 28.5. — Object fixed. 



ab= I'.o. 

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a= 10" 37*". 5. 

 8 — 4-10° 45'4-. 





a very f^iiiit, and but faintly suspected. 



VOL. XXI. (n. S. XIII.) 



1878, Feb. 28.5. — Object fixed. 



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