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MR. RUMKER'S OBSERVATIONS 



I regret that I had always to interrupt the Observations at noon, in order to 

 observe the Sun with the Transit and Mural Circle. 



The second part of the Reduction to the Meridian depends not only upon 

 the Distance from the Meridian, but also upon the number of the Observations 

 contained in the Set, and the intervals between them. Only small corrections 

 that are of variable signs, and complete their periods during the time that em- 

 braces the observations may be neglected in calculations ; but where the sign 

 is constant, even the smallest should be attended to, as the error will not be 

 diminished by taking a mean of the whole, and no benefit arises from often 

 repeated observations. 



The original observations of the Abstracts, which follow, of the Solstices 

 observed at Paramatta, would occupy too much space in printing, and are 

 therefore preserved in Manuscript. 



