80 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Succeeding these are a paper by Professor Geo. Davidson giv- 
ing an account of the total solar eclipse of January 11, ne as 
observed by him at Mt. Santa Lucia, California, and a « New Re- 
duction of Lacaille’s Observations of Fundamental Shane in in the 
Southern Heavens” (be 1749 and 1757), the computations 
eara 
is re-computation, taking account of and correcting 
e many imperfections of Lacaille’s instruments, will give the 
most valuable data for the determination of the proper motions of 
many of the southern stars. 
This paper is followed by a report on a “ Si vb on Gravity 
Determinations, held at Washington, D. C., in May, 1882,” in 
which Hilgard, Herschell, Peirce, N ewcomb, Davide and Schott 
participated. The present state of the science was discussed and 
opinions expressed as to the method of comanening previty observa- 
tions and the sense of the conference was formulated in distinct 
paneer statements and conclusions which are now published. 
Finally, the Report closes with a tribute to the memory of the 
rai Carlile P. Patterson, LL.D., fourth Superintendent of the 
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