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:tiEW OBSERVATIONS OF THE PLANET MEKCURY. 
TABLE V. 
EQUATORIAL DIAMETE-RS OF MERCURY, 1897. 
The correction for irradiation was taken at 0".13 throughout 
Measures of Drawings 
# 
phases of 
Besides tabulating the measures^ I have measured 
x^ 
d tabulated them in Table VI 
Pl 
tered for 
any day being the mean of the values for that day. The ratio of the visible pol 
and equatorial d 
sponds 
at the 
dififerci 
given first; then the phase angle 
which 
and, lastly, the difference between this phase angle and the th 
e 
ph 
Besides these for 
g 
fr 
the 
compar 
are placed the phase ratios, ang 
d 
corrected for irradiation 
measures corrected for the 
raid 
■eads, but not 
words, such as they appeared to the eye 
