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1. at Greenwich Hospital, by Mr. Riddle; 2. at Islington, by Mr. 

 Simms ; 3. at Bedford, by Captain Smyth; 4. at Lapley, near 

 Brewood, Staffordshire, by the Rev. M. Ward. 



III. Observations of the Occultation of J 19 and 120 Tauri, March 

 9, 1832, at Islington. By Mr. Simms. 



IV. Correction of the Formulas for determining the Longitude from 

 an observed Occultation, with Suggestions for simplifying the appli- 

 cation of these and other Formulas to the case of corresponding Ob- 

 servations. By Mr. Riddle. 



V. Observations of Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites and Occultations 

 between the years 182/ and 1832, and Measures of Double Stars 

 taken in 1831 and 1832. Also Observations of the Comet of Ophiu- 

 chus in Jan. 1831. By the Rev. W. R. Dawes. Communicated by 

 Sir J. F. VV. Herschel. 



VI. A New Method of reducing the apparent Distance of the Moon 

 from a Star to the true. By Baron Zach. 



VII. A Method of finding the rate of variation of the Moon's mo- 

 tion at any instant. By Lieut. Raper. 



Vill. On the Determination of the Solar Parallax from Observa- 

 tions of the transit of Venus, June 3rd, 1769. A posthumous work 

 of Don Joseph Joachim de Ferrar ; followed by a Summary by Don 

 Joseph Sanchez Cerquero. Communicated by Sir James South. 



IX. An Ephemeris of Encke's Comet for the Southern Hemisphere. 

 By Professor Encke. Communicated by Lieut. W. S. Stratford. 



X. A List of Stars observed with the Moon, at the Royal Obser- 

 vatory, Greenwich, in the month of April, 1832. 



XI. Observations of the Moon and Moon-culminating Stars 

 made at Cambridge Observatory, in the month of April 1832 j 

 Long. 23^- 54 E., Lat. 52° 12' 50 ". 



June 8. — The following communications were read : — 



I. On the transit of Mercury, of the 5th of May 1832. By the 

 Rev. J. Fisher. Communicated by Captain Beaufort. 



II. Observations of the Occultation of Saturn of May 8, 1832: 

 1 . by W. Lawson, and another at Hereford ; 2. by Mr. Holehouse at 

 Islington; and 3. by Mr. Snow. 



III. Observations of the Solstices from December 1829 to De- 

 cember 1831 ; and Observations of Moon-culminating Stars during 

 the year 1831 ; made at the Hon. East India Company's Observatory 

 atSt. Helena. By Lieut.Johnson. Communicated by Captain Beaufort. 



IV. On the Calculatit)n of the Geographical Longitude and Lati- 

 tude of a place whose geodesic distance from the Meridian and 

 Perpendicular of another place is given, the Earth being considered 

 as a Spheroid. By Baron Zach. 



V. Mean Right Ascension of Fifty-five unknown Stars, observed 

 in 1831, with a transit instrument, of twenty inches focus, and a 

 sidereal chronometerbcating half-seconds ; also Occultations observed 

 in the month of March 1832. By Mr. Snow. 



VI. Fifth Catalogue of Double Stars observed at Slough, in the 

 years 1830 and 1831, with the twentv-feet reflector, and reduced to 

 the epoch 1830.0. By Sir J. W. F. Herschel, K.G.H. 



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