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August, 1912. 



viz., "at the sitjii of tlu' A/iimitli ami Compass, near 

 tlu- India House, in Leaden Hall Street. (iref,'orv 

 offers for sale all sorts of navi(,'ation hooks and sea 

 charts, and advcrti.ses, amont,'st other thinf,'s, Hadley's 

 and Davise's Oiiadrants. Theodolites, Plain Tables, 

 Gaiii:;ing and Drawinf; Instruments and Telescojies 

 at most Reasonable Kates." 



The business card of George .Vdams, " Mathe- 

 matical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty's Office of 

 On/mnice " at Tycho Brahe's Head, the corner of 

 Kac<|uet Court, in Fleet Street, is an exceptionally 

 interesting one. (See Figure 345.) It is difficult 

 to understand Mr. Chancellor's omission of an\- 

 mention whatever of the colony of scientific in- 

 strument-makers which formed one of the most 

 interesting features of the Fleet Street of Johnson, 

 Goldsmith and Hoswell. The cards of the manu- 

 facturers of surgical api)liances have been left to the 

 last. The oldest of them all, James Lane, whose 

 verj' curious trade card bears on the face of it in 

 print, the date 1734 (see Figure 347), was also a 

 Fleet Street worthy, with a shop opposite Salisbury 



Court in I'lcet .Street. IK- advertises " streight 

 stockings, steel stays, collars, ham-screws and swings 

 to prevent children being crooked." John Chasson, 

 who issued a card with the text in both French and 

 English (see Figure 349), lived in Newgate Street, 

 at the sign of the "C. and Cross" (du C et de la 

 Croix) concerning which the writer will welcome 

 any explanation. Paston Cartwright (see Figure 350). 

 in 1770. flourished amongst the bankers and notable 

 merchants in Lombard Street. " near the Mansion 

 House." He possibly enjoyed the support of the 

 Lord Major, but, like Chasson, he found it advis- 

 able to use a bilingual trade card. Of all these 

 eighteenth-century cards none presents more 

 delicate artistic features than the bill-head of 

 Holmes & Laurie, of Bartholomew Close, West 

 Sinithfield. (See Figure 348.) It is rendered 

 specially interesting by the bill set out beneath it, 

 which, receijited apparently by one of the heads 

 of the firm, shows the exact date (1774), at which 

 it enjoyed the distinction of being Truss-makers 

 to the Royal Nav\-. 



SOLAR ni.STURBANCES DURLNG JUNE, 1912. 

 Bv FR.\NK C. DENNETT. 



During the month of June, the Sun was apparently quite free 

 from disturbance on eight days — Jrd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 13th to 

 15th and 30th — whilst only faculac were seen on six — 5th to 

 9th and 29th. The longitude of the central meridian at noon 

 on the 1st was 311° 58'. 



No. 7. — A disturbance belonging to May which continued 

 visible until June 2nd and accordingly re-appears upon the 

 present chart. 



Upon the 12th a small pore was visible but its position was 

 not measured; however, it could not have been far from 165° 

 where a little cross is marked, although it may possibly have 

 been upon the other side of the eijuator. 



No. 8. — A spot first seen on the afternoon of June 16th. 

 close to the eastern limb, in south latitude 8", and having a 

 diameter of eleven thousand miles. During its transit across 

 the disc the diameter at first increased to fifteen thousand 

 miles ; it also had a proper motion which carried it its own 

 diameter nearer the equator. Nearly all the time it was 

 visible the penumbra was noticed to brighten towards its 

 inner border. The darker nuclei within the umbra were 



well shown. A tiny pore was suspected amid the bright 

 faculae, which extended away toward the south-east on 

 the 18th. A pore was also seen here on the 20th, whilst two 

 were visible on the 23rd. The spot seemed to be shrinking 

 somewhat when last seen a little within the western limb on 

 the 28th. 



Faculae were seen on June 5th in longitude 317° — 327°, 

 S. latitude 8° — 14° ; and on the 6th, the knot and streak at 

 longitudes 301° and 305° degrees respectively. On the 8th, 

 the disturbance in longitude 145° — 152°. S. latitude 0° — 7° 

 was within the eastern limb. On the ISth, a bright linot was 

 approaching the western limb in somewhat high northern 

 latitude, and on the 19th, a small one near iongitude 154°, at 

 54° N latitude. From June 21st until the 24th. faculae were 

 seen from longitude 325° to 335°, S. latitude S° — 17°, and 

 longitude 309°— 312°, S. latitude 9"— 15, the return of the 

 April disturbance. On the 29th, the faculic following of No. 8 

 was still visible within the western limb. 



Our chart is constructed from the combined observations of 

 Messrs. J. McHarg, A. A. Buss, E. E. Peacock, C. Frooms, 

 D. Booth, and the writer. 



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