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The author has omitted the formule upon which these tables 
have been constructed. In order to appreciate their exact- 
ness they must be decomposed, which is sometimes long 
and difficult enough when they are founded upon formulz 
simply approximative. 
M. Canclas has sent us from Spain the Almanack Nom- 
tika for 1807. That for 1808 is calculating. 
The Academy of Sciences in Norway, to which council- 
lor Hammer bequeathed 80,000 francs, with a library and a 
cabinet of natural history, have not forgotten to devote a 
part of these resources to the service of astronomy. I have 
already had occasion to remark that astronomy was culti- 
vated in these terrible climates, where Messrs. Pihl, Wib 
senior and junior, and M. Aubert, have made many useful 
observations. 
M. Goldbach, having arrived at Moscow on the Ist of 
April, fixed upon the spot for the observatory in the Botanic 
Garden. He expects a three-foot circle, made by Berge, 
the successor of Ramsden ; and a five-foot transit instru- 
ment from Carey. The senator Mouravieff, curator of the 
university of Moscow, favours this establishment, which 
cannot fail to procure us some excellent observations. 
M. Goldbach has determined the latitude of the univer- 
sity to be 55° 44’ 39”. The observatory will be one minute 
more northerly: thus the latitude marked in the Connois- 
sance de Temps 55° 45’ 45”, nearly approaches that which 
we shall have to use. 
On the 28th of November the grand pensionary of Hol- 
Jand named M. Fokker astronomer to the republic. This 
leads me to hope that an observatory and instruments will 
be procured in that country, where astronomical observa- 
tions have been so long wanted for the use of their navy. 
I have already spoken of the zeal of M. Fokker in the His- 
tory of Astronomy for 1801. (Bibl. p- 856.) 
_ The emperor, in passing through Turin, promised general 
Menou to grant 60,000 francs for the use of the observa- 
tory; and the academy will send from France a practical 
astronomer, in order to show theorists the method of making 
observations. 
