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of, the year, the moon and even the larger planets completely eclipse its 
mild light much of the time when it might otherwise be seen. 
ince the commencement of 1859, I have been able to obtain a few 
extremity of the axis of the cone; these codrdinates being then easily 
convertible into those of longitude and latitude, thus giving the position 
referred to the ecliptic. : 
I have devoted very little attention to the physical phenomena of this 
body. Perhaps the phenomenon of rapid variations in brightness, ob- 
tved more than once, may not be without interest. These are not 
witho 
was particularly observable on Jan. , last. 
e annexed small table of observations, the column headed 4-@ 
contains the difference between the observed longitude of the apex of the ee 
light, and that of the sun taken from an ephemeris; in other words, the 
angular distance of the vertex from the solar centre. That headed # : 
shows the observed latitude of the vertex, north latitudes being regarded 
as positive. 
Date. A—() B 
b ° Le 
1859, Jan. 23, — 104°8 +2 49 
26, 8-2 1038 +317 
1, 75 10I'7 +3 31 
1861, Jan. 4, 7°5 86-5 +o 38 
ae 3a 84:4 +2 38 
Feb. 1, 7:2 72'9 —214 
» &o 78-1 — 247 
AM a 74:8 -3 3 
Mar. 6, 8-0 70°8 + 3 33 
» &5 7 Eat 
28, 8:5 Phe me 2 8 
+) ier Pied sa 79 —o 2 
1862, Dee. 11, 7-0 704 +317 
1863, Jan, 8 86-8 +3 °7 
18, 8-3 905 ~ 6 8 
Weld, Franklin Co., Maine, Apr. 15, 1863. 
5. Results of Observations of Variable Stars at Weld, Franklin 
Maine ; by Simimax Masrerman.—I send you the results of my 
servations of variable stars since the commencement of the year. 
formed a design of observing all of those variables visible to the n 
eye, also such as require only a small optical power for that purpo 
but a long-continued illness, from which I now find myself far from 
a 
