28 A Talk of the Suns Right Ascension, &c. 



with great care, will give every facility desirable for carrying on 

 this work. 



10th. Notwithstanding; the shipwreck at the Malouin or Falk- 

 land Islands, which caused the loss of 18 cases of snecimens of 

 natural history, there remain still about ^0. These contain a 

 great number of specimens out of the three kingdoms of nature ; 

 and especially almost the whole of those which were collected at 

 the Marianne Islands, yet little known in that res})ect to na- 

 turalists. 



11th. The number of drawings made during the voyage 

 amounts to several hundreds; the greater part admiral)le for the 

 beauty of the situations which they represent, or for the correct- 

 ness of the portraits, and the graces of their composition. 



r2th. In short, the observations on the manners and customs 

 of the people whom they visited, have been collected in very great 

 number by all the officers employed in the expedition. All of 

 them have been drawn up in the same spirit, and after the same 

 plan, in order that they may connect themselves easily with the 

 general account of the voyage. 



It is above all to be remarked, that this is the first expedi- 

 tion of the same kind, in which all the scientific operations have 

 been performed entirely by officers attached to the service of the 

 Royal Marine of France, 



V. A Table of the Sun's Right Ascention in every Ten Mi- 

 nutes of hii Longitude, with the Differences and Secular 

 Fariation for January 1, ISOl. {OlAiq. Eclip. 23" 27' 57", 

 and Sec. Far. 52"' 1.) By Mr. James VrritiG, I.ynn Regis, 



To Mr. Tilloch. 



Sir, — 1 SEND you for insertion in your Philosophical Maga^^ 

 zine and Journal (if approved) Tables of the Sun's Right Asccut 

 sion in degrees, &c., also in hours, minutes, &c. of the Sun's De- 

 clination, and also of the Reduction of theEcliptic to the Equator. 

 The whole are (alculated from Taylor's Tables of Logarithms 

 to Seconds, and will, I conceive, be found useful to such persons 

 at least as do not possess the above tai)les. 



I am, sir, yours truly, 

 Lynn Regis, Jan. 5, 1 820. ' J A M E s Utti N G , 



*#* The first of the Tables sent by Mr. Utting is subjoined, 

 The other three will appear in our following Numbers. — Ejjit. 



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