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dred lunations, but throughout the year 1864) a fair trial 

 of the kind, should record the state of the sky as to cloud 

 on three successive nights of each lunation that on 

 which the full moon occurs, and those immediately pre- 

 ceding and succeeding it, from an hour before the rise 

 of the moon, and thence hourly to as late an hour of the 

 night as his usual habits will allow noting the strength 

 and direction of the wind, and accompanying his memo- 

 randa in every instance with a note of the day and houx 

 at which the observation it refers to was made. 



