ADDRESS SECTION A, B.A. 1876. 



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Weight. 



" Accepting these results as real, they would 

 indicate a radius of rotation of the instantaneous 

 axis amounting, at the earth's surface, to 5 feet 

 and a longitude of the point in which this axis 

 intersects the earth's surface near the North Pole, 

 such that on July u, 1864, it was 180 from 

 Washington, or 103 east of Greenwich. The 

 excess of the coefficient over its probable error is 

 so slight that this result cannot be accepted as any- 

 thing more than a consequence of the unavoidable 

 errors of observation. " 



From the discordant character of these results 



