VOL. LIII.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 7 if 



parallax from the observations made at all those places* which are to the east 

 of Greenwich, where the late transit of Venus was observed; he has therefore 

 computed them again, and they are as in the following synoptic table. 



The time of the internal contact of Venus with the sun's limb observed at the 



Cape of Good Hope compared with that at ' 



Sun's parallax Sun's parallax Sun's parallaK 



Greenwich S./i^' Bologna 8.54''' Hernosand 8.78'^ 



Shirburn castle . . 8.15 Rome 8.74 Calmar 8.97 



Savile house .... 8.57 Drontheim, 8.33 Abo 8.68 



Leskeard 8.69 Upsal . 8.60 Tornea 8.O9 



Paris 8.54 Stockholm 8.59 Cajaneburg .... 8.43 



By the mean of these 15 results, the sun's parallax on the day of the 



transit = 8.54 



And if we reject the '2d, 1 Uh, 12th, and 14th, which differ the most from 



the rest, the mean of the remaining eleven gives the sun's parallax . . = 8.56 

 Therefore the mean horizontal parallax of the sun is = 8.69 



XXX. Of a Remarkable FisL-f- taken in Kivg-Road, near Bristol. By MrX 



James Ferguson, p. 170. 



This fish fought violently against the fishermen's boat, after they got it in their 

 net, and was killed with great difficulty. Its length is 4 feet 9 inches, and its 

 thickness in proportion. The mouth is a foot in width, and of a squarish form; 

 it has 3 rows of sharp small teeth, very irregularly set, and at some distance from 

 each other; it has no tongue, nor narrow gullet, but is all the way down, as far 

 as one can see, like a great hollow tube; in the back of the mouth within, there 

 are two openings like nostrils; and about 9 inches below the jaw, and under 

 these openings, are 2 large knobs, from which proceed several short teeth; a 

 little below which, on the breast side, is another knob with such teeth. On 

 each side within, and about a foot below the jaws, there are 3 cross ribs, some- 

 what resembling the straight bars of a chimney grate, about an inch distant 

 from each other; through which we see into a great cavity within the skin, to- 

 wards the breast ; and under the skin, these cavities are kept distended by longi- 

 tudinal ribs, plain to the touch on the outside. Mr. F. put his arm down through 

 the mouth, quite to his shoulder, but could feel nothing in the way; so that its 

 heart, stomach, and bowels, must lie in a very little compass near its tail, the 

 body thereabout being very small. From the neck proceed 2 long horns, hard 



• Because the longitudes of all those places were taken from the Connoissance des Temps, and the 

 Swedish Acts, in which their differences of longitude from Paris are marked down.— Orig. 



+ The species of Lophins here described is the Long Angler of Pennant. Lophins Conubicus, Shaw. 

 General Zoology. La Lophie Ferguson, Cepede. 



