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For the sake of comparison I here add the vahies of h and h 

 for 1909, calculated with the old and the new corrections, from 

 which it appears that this makes little difference. 



1909 old correction A = + 1"81 k = -\- 2"17 ' 

 new „ k — -\- 1 .90 ^ = + 2 .14 



The best way to further discuss these results appeared to me to 

 be, that first of all the values found for k and k should be corrected 

 for Brown's inequalities, in which the quantities x> ^s defined above, 

 are varying in long periods. 



In this way for 1890—1910, and for the l»' and 2"^ series of 

 Newcomb, 1847—1858 and 1862—1874, the sum was formed of the 

 following terms: 



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