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INFERIOR CONJUNCTION OF VENUS, 1850-51, 



Remarks. 



Rarely a good measure (luring the whole inoining, the motion of the planet being wavy, 

 a Blurred. b Better. c Tolerably shai p. d Sharp and good. c Daylight. 



Results. 



h. m. s. 

 Mean . . . Eighteen transits . . . 12 1 38.13 



h. in. E, 



Correction for chronometer at 12 2. . . 47.81 



h. in. 

 A p at 12 2 . . . 



in. s. Rev. 



-2 36.51 .... 3.085 



Santiago sid. time S. F. . . . 



O.OG 



h. m. s. 

 12 50.32 



JANUARY 21 83, 1851. 



Xo attempt was made to measure the uitVerenccs on tin- Slst, 2v!d, uml 23,1, the slur being too distant in declination to move the imciomcler screw 

 through the space whilst the object! wore passing across the field. 



