80 Appendix. 
and one needs but to glance at ran celestial globe or atlas to convince him- 
I 
self that this is a process more easily spoken of than accomplished. If per- . 
ormed i 
a manner Spore eto * astronomers it will find prompt adoption 
t 
prescribed in advance, and not to be transgressed = any pretext; if such 
can ys judiciously laid down, and yet found upon trial not to be inco 
mpatible — 
with an arrangement of boundaries easy of reco gnition and of description, I 
eans 
see no reason to doubt their glad reception by astronomers, as a simple m 
for substituting for the existing confusion a well ordain and unmistakeable : 
sy 
Notwithstanding some misgivings, J am at present occupied in the ay 
to arrange the Southern constellations in such a way that the changes may 
regarded nomers as only 
uring the last week we have unpacked the equatorial, and have mounted — 
the fo 
its bed-plate upon a pier of white marble, from Sierra four leagues away. 
are already m 
gi coutigion than ri had been led to ores for the summer rains here 
re sudden and vehement. The theory of an eternal summer is thoroughly — . 
had a doz 
dis isposed of; "fe a the las t thre ree months awe have not zen per- 
al al 
character of the weather during a considerable at 4 March goer Apel the 
autumn Bonen ushered by a long cloudy se I wr ou before that 
ey 
had kno o rain here without abun dant thunder = ightning 
I have seen no r ange my 7 sation | eaeeeiin, The rainless season 
is now said to oe oa - a 
me. 4 
It is to be expected that in the course of our work we may encounis he 
sanihet of variable stars sufficient to make the number in the Southern Hem 
sphere approximately —_ to that of those already known north vat 
Equator. As yet however we have not followed pees wd very dec 
umber of sta 
and 35 in. focal len ngth, it is a conspicuous object, and prominent oe its ruddy : 
ich it forms a part, agai i 
color among the cluster of which it forms against the bright nebula a8 
a bac With this teles the same one which I employed for ob- 
total -eclipse of 1860, I have been examining the whole group; 
and have found to tonishment that it exhibits with distinctness a coD- 
es : 
siderable number of stars, which are recorded in Sir J. Herschel’s catalogue | 
ed.) . 
this cluster, as being of the 14th See —(T'o be continu 
Party of Geological Exploration under Prof. 0.C. Marsx.—Prof. Marsh, with ® | 
party of twelve, i is about leavi ing fs the Rocky ena region and the Pacific — 
sc to continue his investigations with reference to the Cretaceous and Tertialy — 
rates of the region. onths. - 
He will be absent about six mon 
It will assuredly find with us a cordial wel- | 
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