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_ off by the slightest cloud or haze. The details of the investiga- 
tion are f Saget in the Proceedings of the Royal Society for Jan- 
eo ht 
5.) Trane it of Venus, 1874.—The potest arrangements, 
for the ree Rs Ee of the transit of Venus, 1874 are sufficiently 
ition 
imuths are in actual progress in the manufactory of Messrs. 
Troughton and Simms. The second telescope at each station will 
at nah iter Island, Oahu, Auckland in New Zealand, Alex- 
andria, an Rodriguez. 
A Commission, consisting a Admiral Paris, MM. Faye, Laugier, 
illarceau, and Pui uiseux, has rted to the Bureau des Longitudes 
that it would be partenatly desirable for the French came 
? St. Paul and Amsterdam, Yokoha- 
The North German astronomers have referred the consideration 
of the action wtek: «levee should urge upon their Government, toa 
Committee, of whom the illustrious astronomer of Gotha was 
ee sheceesployareis 
r to la at stress upon the employmen 
of heliometers for Saag the re sive position of eng on the Sun 
at the — stations. 
photography a ctroscopic observasiods: was discu 
chief saphy and to the Se of photography on esti to be 
in the question of expense, although Professor lander was 
not —- with the ote - of accuracy which mnghe be expected 
ee. Spe pie eT 
proposed only to sddivate the approach of the planet for the obser- 
vation of external contacts. Committee recommended that 
the Government be urged to fit out four ex o to the 
North and two to the South. The stations een referred to as 
ae were mperriamey Bakes ergue. = dwards’ 
sei the Russian astronomers. “The Aorta = Tmperial 1 Ob- 
servatory at Pulkova has already secured a Committee for the con- 
