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have observed and reduced to the maps about 4500 stars between 
the 10th degree of north declination and the south pole, while the 
Uranometry of Argelander, which contains all the stars visible 
without instruments between the north pole and 30° of south lati- 
tude, contains only 3256 stars. If the Government decides upon 
vations taken at Cape Town, at Madras, Melbourne and Santiago | 
will serve for a beginning to this labor, which is designed rather 
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tain brilliancy, situated in a given region of the heavens. The 
same proceeding is successively repeated up to the definitive explo- 
ration of the entire space between the proposed limits. A simi- 
lar examination has been made by the German astronomers, 
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1¢ National Congress has without solicitation from Dr. Gould 
Provided for an obseryer’s dwelling upon the Observatory grounds. 
by which the Observa- 
1 use in developing the science of the coun- 
