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of P. III, 242, strictly taken implies that this star is a little more 
distant than the 8th magnitude comparison star, 37°, 877. 
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Observutory.—The four quarto volumes of star positions referred 
to Dr. B. A. Gould in his letter in the December number of 
this Journal, have been received. Two of them, vols. iii and iv, 
contain zone observations made in 1873, and two, vols. vii and 
Vili, contain the zone catalogue. This extends from declination 
— 23° to — 80°, covering thus a zone from — 23° to — 30° which 
The whole number of stars in the Catalogue is 73 160. A few 
stars are entered as of the tenth magnitude, though the limit was 
m general the 94 magnitude. ost of the stars were observed 
over 100,000. This zone catalogue constitutes the second of the 
three principal contributions which the Argentine Government 
and Dr, Gould are furnishing to astronomers. The first was the 
Uranometria Argentina, already published; the third is the gen- 
eral catalogue of stars spoken of in his letter to Professor Dana, 
quoted in the last number of this Journal. 
4. International Conference held at Washington for the pur- 
pose of fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day, October, 
1884.—A volume of 212 pp., large octavo, has just been published 
containing detailed reports of the eight sessions of the Interna- 
tional Conference, the first held on October Ist, and the last on 
November 1, 1884. This record is all the more valuable and 
Mhteresting in view of the important results to which the discus- 
Slons here printed in full finally led. 
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avis of Harvard College and C. G. Rockwood, Jr., of Prince- 
ton College, 
Tt was considered desirable to attempt work in two directions. 
.t8t.—The collection of more reliable non-instrumental observa- 
tons, by the general distribution of circulars of information an 
blank reports, to be filled up and returned to some central office 
after the occurrence of an earthquake. It is proposed to pertain 
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these circulars as widely as possible, and Pro w 
Sen preduested to prepare forms for the necessary correspondence, 
ag —The establishment of stations provided with ru- 
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