SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE ON VENUS—CAMERON. OTT 
To better the record, it was necessary to see Venus when less 
than thirty-one days from that date, and less than 73° from the 
sun. 
The thirty-first day before conjunction was June 8th. The 
midday sky was cloudy then, and so it was on the 9th, 10th, and 
llth. On the 12th we had the pure blue sky that follows 
summer rain, and at noon my naked eye found Venus “ disgrace 
fully easy.” So my notes say. I suppose they mean it would 
have been disgraceful for even a bad eye (as was one of the two 
that made the observation) not to see her. They go on :—“ Kye 
holds her dodging through clouds, and picks her up over and 
over again.” This was twenty-seven days before conjunction. 
On the 13th, she was easier than on the 12th. Then there were 
nine days unfit for observation. On the 23rd, we had another 
of those glorious skies that follow a spell of rain and fog, and 
Venus was again easy, and was found very quickly after being 
located by a field-glass. On the 24th, she was not so easy, 
because the sky was white. On the 25th, the sky was fine, and 
my naked eye saw her for the last time before conjunction. It 
was fourteen days before, and the angular distance from the 
sun’s centre was under 4°. 
All the observations from June 12th to June 25th, were made 
between 12 and 12.30, (60° W. time), when Venus was very near 
the meridian, As the conjunction was a July one like the 
inferior conjunction of 1892—the very same day, indeed, July 
9, in both cases—I had the advantage of high altitude. 
This is likely my last note on this subject, and it may be as 
well to set down here a summary of the extreme observations 
which I have managed to make on Venus both with the naked 
eye and with an opera-glsss. A description of the glasses I 
used is given in the article cited, p. 354. 
With naked eye :-— 
(a) At inferior conjunction—3 days before the conjunction 
of July 9, 1892. Elongation 6° 50’ from sun’s 
centre. Altitude 64°. 
