260 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
results (which will probably appear in a report presented to the 
. 8. Coast Survey) are not as yet complete; but I may say, in 
perhaps even as regards work on double stars, and like measures), 
the gain is less than might een expected, 
to the corona, concededly, our only h (with our present 
means) of materially extending our knowledge of it, lies in the 
prospect that we may yet be able to see it without an eclipse, if 
the observer be in an exceptionally transparent atmosphere. 
will add that, after a recent expedition to Colorado, and with the 
sca If we or § é 
event as the completion of the Lick Observatory, we shall find 
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