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tablish immediate correspondence by this station with the Royal Obser- 
vatory of England ome details on this subject follow. 
Signals were made every evening between 10" and 114, amounting 
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mence a new series of electric signals and astronomical observations to 
eliminate the effects of personal equations. Every night, precisely at 
of stars observed during the evening by as many 3° interval beats. 
Brussells operates then in like manner from 104" to 1045, when Green- 
wich resumes, and then Brussells at 1034. ‘The signals have never 
- Quetelet thought that in his communication to the Academy he 
ought to limit himself to these simple indications, leaving to Mr. Airy 
the care of discussing and publishing hereafter the aggregate of the 
observations undertaken at his request. E. B. H. 
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stronomers—M., Faye, M. Yvon-Villarceau. 
Adjunct Astronomers—M. Babinet, M. Emile Goujon, M. Chacornac. 
M. Babinet also is charged with the meteorological observations. 
Astronomical Eléves——M. Butillon, M. Reboul, M. Liais. __£. B. H. 
6. On manufactured Sea- Water for the Aquarium ; by P. H. Gosss, 
ALS., . Nat. Hist., [2], xiv, 65.)—The inconvenience, de- 
lay and expense attendant upon the procuring of sea-water, from the 
Coast or from the , L had long ago felt to be a great difficulty in 
