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INFERIOR CONJUNCTION OF VENUS, 1852, 



Remarks. 



Quite sharp and steady images ; and the observations might have been commenced earlier, but that tlie oil was so congealed the k.mps would not burn. 



a Good measures. b Good measures. Daylight. 



Diameter of Venus from a mean of 6 measures, at 4A. 42m. sid. time, 1.868 rev. Corrected diameter, 34". 21. 



