S. Neweomb—Remarks on the late Transit of Venus. 3889 
parison of the observations, a work _ will necessarily re- 
quire much time for its accomplishm 
mong the causes which affected the prosecution of the 
observations, the weather occupies the most prominent place. 
The most striking feature of the weather at the late transit, so 
far as concerns the American stations, is the impartiality with 
Notwithstanding that the utmost pains were taken to choose 
vom dene where the weather record for November and Decem- 
er was good, the prosecution of the observations was more or 
less iAtertenad with by clouds at every one of the eight sta- 
tions. On the other hand, there was not a station at which the 
operations totally failed. At the most + apenas one, Chatham 
and, six or eight photographs of the sun with Venus on its 
aise were secured. At two stations, Babaris wt and Chatham 
Island, no contacts at all were observe he number of good 
photographs of the sun with Venus completely entered upon its 
8¢ 1s approximately as follows: 
Northern Stations. 
W ladivostok, Sibert... tc discs cece ses eareened 13 
Pekin, Ohintecc 0) ah ic, 90 
Nagasaki, Senda ee ee es ed 88 
Total, oo 163 
Southern Stations. 
Kerguélen Tata, S92 ee ga 26 
Hobarttown, Tas paces EU ee Pr ee 39 
Campbelltown; Tasmania, Up. 2 ce 55 
* — Queenstown, New aland, es bs Saha 59 
Chatham Island, 8 
Tot -187 
While the mie number of these photographs is extremely 
disappointing, their distribution among so many stations is a 
great advantage, through the facilities thus afforded for detect- 
ing and beside any constant error peculiar to any particu- 
stati 
Besides the photographs here enumerated, a number of pho- 
tographs of the indentation made by the planet while eget: 
upon the limb of the sun were obtained at some statio 
een observations were obtained at the aiieviedi eudous 
as fo 
First External Contact. 
Northern stations: Wladivostok, Pekin, Nagasaki. ? 
Southern stations: Kerguelen, Queenstown. 
_ Lhe difference of time between the mean of the northern sta- 
tions and Kerguelen, due to parallax, is thirteen minutes. 
