D. P. Todd—The Transit of Venus, 1882. 131 
Art. XIV.—An Account of Observations of the Transit of Venus, 
1882, made at the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, Cali- 
fornia; by Davin P. Topp, M.A., Professor in Amherst 
College. (Communicated by the Trustees of the James 
Lick Trust.) 
enabled to arrive on the summit of the mountain early in 
the evening of the 2ist. Two weeks then remained before 
the day of the transit, for completing the unfinished portions 
of the photoheliograph, mounting and adjusting the same, and 
two days had we any rains—these very slight. Violent winds 
interfered with our operations on three or four days. 
gone erature was rarely below 50°, and most of the time above 
At midnight, the 80th November, the sky cleared, after 
three and a half days of continuously cloudy weather. From 
that time. until the afternoon of December ‘7th, we saw so 
cloud, day nor night, which could interfere in the least wit 
any observation we had to make. Thin cirrus was floating 
above the summit on the morning of the 2d, but it had van- 
