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a which he has executed this difficult and delicate task, is ample evi- 
ce that the confidence of the Department was not misplaced. His 
me ieport does him great honor. It will fill from 130 to 140 pages of vol- 
~ ume third of the results of the expedition, the mil portion of it, and 
all the remainder of the volume, being already prin 
The result obtained by him for the Sun’s Fe eatorial Horizontal Par- 
‘hough it must ome a a long time before Gauss’s profound work can be 
superseded, yet since . _ in 1809, some improvements (not 
indeed very important) have been made, and certain parts of the method 
form of notes on. their -g Sa articles, si form y Bessel, 
Nicolai, Encke, Gauss an 
pore the subject matter, aureioe, this ane scarcely any: 
thing to be desired, and must prove a ighly aece’ the student 
of theoretical astronomy as well as to the practised com Ne 
pur, 
f the work is also worthy of the classic 
The typo, meer ome the e ag Rep ea ar 
the body of the fi _sepervision Prof. Chauvenet, who 
(judging by the list published in theaAstronomical Journal, No. 10: 
probably left slightest importan 
unresefvedly in praise of Commander 
of the text. It ® true that, with some exceptions, 
; which we — ee compa to notice preeeny> he has contrived to con-_ 
vey Gauss’s meaning b. woth nm, Wgich has at least the 
