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or at any other time. The cusps approached each other with a 
motion geometrically, and to me surpri singly, precise; without 
Ponuess, flickering or vibration. Such portions of the p sgh at 
disc as were near or between the cusps, seemed visibly less da 
than the main portions more remote; but this gradation of hue 
was limited in extent and apparently without influence on the for- 
mation of the luminous thread. 
Just preceding the union of the cusps the approaching points 
seemed to lose for a second or two the regular precision of their 
fi e formed did 
ongitude 146° 43’ 0” = 9" 46™ 52° KE, of Greenwich, latitude 
* 21' 40" 'S.; height above sea level 1800 feet] at 11" 0™ 24°%6 
Melbourne mean time ;.subject to any error, against which all 
.. precautions were taken, either in the telegraph from Mel- 
n the chronometer carried from the telegraph office to 
the sines: of observation. 
Not many minutes had elapsed after the first ples contact 
when a sudden change of weather ensued. <A high w Pre 
up and dense clouds, at intervals, quite obscured the sun. At tw 
P. M. the planet ceased to be visible and n o phase of the pent 
Columbia College Observatory, N. Y., Oct. 16th, 1875. 
IV. MisceLLANEOUS ScreNTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
The Anderson School ; letter to the Editors of the Evening 
Post from Prof. ALEXANDER ‘Acassiz.—A letter signed “ E,” lately 
0 
Sop some of the director and trustees toward Mr. Anderson may 
e briefly noticed, 
t may or may not have oe se to Mr. Anderson that ony 
and of the 8 rson was tally aware. It og always ned 
between Pichoite Agassiz and myself e founding of a 
Summe oli wise changed this situs —that as his 
My special charge, and that toward its support alone whatever I 
could contribute personally or command from others would be 
applied. 
held the Sh eceag as director of the Anderson School, left in 
Writing by Professor Agassiz, in abeyance, until early in 1874 the 
opportunity occurred to confer wi Mr. Anderson, when I ex- 
