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 TABLE VI. 



Density of the nebulae in the directum of the galactic meridian of 45'^ 



we have combined in table VIII the regions north and south of 

 the gal. equator, as it was of no use to consider these regions 

 separately. On the construction of the two tables the compensation 

 method used by Stratonoff has probably influence, but in my 

 opinion it is of no consequence that the details of the distribution 

 are more or less obliterated and hence the contrasts are less distinct. 

 For an investigation of the main features this is rather an advantage; 

 the method is only inconvenient with the Nubeculae. In these two 

 tables the data relating to the southern hemisphere have been added, 



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