278 SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE ON VENUS ~ CAMERON. 
(b) At superior conjunction —14 days before the conjunc- 
tion of July 9, 1896. Altitude 70°. Elongation, 
3° 51’ from centre, 3° 35’ from limb. 
Both of these observations were made within 15 minutes of 
mean noon. 
(c) Near greatest elongation or greatest brilliancy,—April 
30, 1892: found by eye when 18° above east 
horizon, the sun at the time being 44° high. 
Angust 23, 1892: held by eye till only 8° above 
W. horizon, sun being over 35° high. 
(Then there is the curious pair of observations already 
referred to—one after sunset on February 13, 1894, the other on 
the following morning before sunrise.) 
With opera-glass or field-glass :— 
(a) At inferior conjunction,—July 9, 1892: on the day © 
and at the hour of conjunction. Elongation 44°, 
Altitude 64°. 
(b) At superior conjunction,—May, 11, 1893: 9 days after 
conjunction. Elongation 2}° from limb. Altitude 
64°. 
December 12, 1894: 16 days after conjunction. 
Elongation 32°. Altitude 22.° 
(c) Near greatest elongation or greatest brillianey—March 
28, 1892: found when 74° above East horizon. 
Sun's altitude 242°. 
August 238, 1892: held till only 3° above West horizon, 
Sun’s altitude 29°. 
YarMOouvTH, N.S., April 30, 1897. 
