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trical and other apparatus at the station, and will have the ball hoisted daily at the 
proper time, and the electric connections properly made; provided this does not, on - 
the average, require more of the time of the man on duty than one-half hour pe 
d 
2d.—The ie of battery and battery-room, and of purchasing, installing 4 
repairing sigs ie ratus, as also the expense attending the’astronomical determin: 
tion of Sans a the necessary getting te: must borne by other parties, ee 
must not in any way be imposed upon the Signal Service 
3d.—The Chief Signal Officer will ict undertake such cooperation for the benefit 
of ~ good a, lo nor unless there is satisfactory evidence that the ‘ ee a 
nals” will be in charge of such astronomers and institutions as can guar 
high panned: of erecrar is and the uniform maintenance of their part of the ane 
service from year ce 
Wh —The signal. hich consists in dropping the “ time ball”, must be given 
automatically by tele graphy from the Astronomical Observatory, which shall alone 
be responsible for "ities ecuracy thereof. 
—The Chi ef S 1 Officer shoal pleased to publish such portions of the 
soma perc of t in charge of time balls as relate to the accuracy 
of t 
als, 
th.— Without ghragapt to aecsue r= a Chief Signal Officer would suggest, 
that the interests o vigators as well of railroad travelers, and of the 
community at large, as bably be best Pathe rved by serene the iti 
and especially at noon of the meridians of 75°, 90°, adh r 120° of tiie pial st 
of Greenwich, in accordance with the following schedu 
ing isco, time’ balls all drop at noon on iis c meridian. 
ox wie 
sao ‘ ae ‘ oc 90th “ 
Missal yt Valley bs ‘ bi 90th (0 
Pacific Coast * “ « he 1S oa 
Thus, for instance, at Washington, the time ball will be dropped at exactly five 
hours of Greenwich mean time, which will be eight minutes earlier than Washing- 
mean noon, and three minutes later than New York mean noon 
Tth.—The Chief ape Service igen will take action in refo erence to time balls 
on 
tions scidaiaiolgts their aasieed to 
rer isi in water-level of ae on the borders Me Oregon 
d Ontiiern —A letter to the editors A 
owas: of ii ackeorvitie, Oregon, states that Goose Lake "30 miles 
long and two-thirds of it in Oregon, the rest in California, was 
r 
cae dp is ten feet deeper than it was in samghte and Tulie Lake, 
In the same region (the locality of the lava beds where were the 
eg Sa places of the Modoe Indians) is 10 or 15 feet higher to-day 
tha n. 
3. Bibliographie Astronomique.—The second fascicule of this 
erie work of Messrs. Houzeau and Lancaster has been dis- 
