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ceeded, tend to establish also a connection between solar spots and 
solar radiation. It is demonstrated by the researches of Piazzi 
Smyth, Stone, and Cleveland Abbe, that there is no connection 
between the amount of heat received from the sun and the pre- 
find a close harmony between them, connection will prob- 
ably be found to exist over the globe generally ; but with refer- 
ence to the Indian ocean, Mel discussion of twenty-five 
years’ observations, that in | 
and 25° south latitude, and between 40° and 110° east longitude, 
as really come, 
hot only for relieving private observers from the systematic ob- 
Servation of solar phenomena, but for drawing close ties between 
all scattered scientific observations so as to let one grand scheme 
ada the whole; and no method seems to be so well adapted 
Col. Srranex, in moving a vote of thanks, complimented the 
President on his success in rendering photography available for 
Uurposes of astronomical measurement, and thus accomplishing 
What the most eminent astronomers had believed to be impossible, 
