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258 REPORTS FROM THE SECTIONS. 
I could not well spaced its exact shape on account of the mist — sur- 
unded it, but the upper portion clear of the mist was sufficiently defined to 
determine its apbeioid fins 
5 ts greatest alt. at 9 h. 6 min. 12 sec. was fully } of the sun’s dise off 
oe is i the shadow nearly reaching to the 1. 1., but “inclining still to the 
“As. ‘the. Lyd ti = the Parle agra on Mei body rete of the 
ellip the sket rising about 15°-16° from 
the rare vec Ars and o gress. The pe was wpe lost as it passed off 
me sun x the N. fe and ca aa I saw of it after attentively watching was a 
as "rs anything to be observed near the northern 
si 
1. of the fan alter 
March 17th. —This morning was beautifully clear with light S.E. wind, 
rpms to ape 8 the — and = ee sa reason I had arn a the time to 
det e the error and rate of chro 
Pett of point aaielbe; tlt ‘a oa deg. 42 min. 43 sec. 
Time E.... 11h. 55 min. 16 sec. 
1. Time jai shadow was first a sel 8 h. 55 min. 15 sec. 
iy 9h. 6min. 46 sec. 
tot pda 9h. 22 min. 57 sec. 
Mean altitude corrected..................00+ Aldeg. 38min. 30 sec. 
Worked by lat. ................4.... 17 deg. 43 min. 
Bearing 8. 76 deg. E. ........... 
I will be glad at any time ‘% ti any further information on this subject 
in my power, and beg to 
Dear Sir, 
Yours very faithfully, 
HUME J. BEATSON. 
Mr. Rvsser1 stated om he had forw age He original letters 
to M. Leverrier, Astronomer for France, Par 
rv. G. Manrin rea a paper on the GLickae of the planet 
moon as viewed in his 5-inch Cooke equatorial; the great 
outh polar snow-cap was prominent visible. Mr. Martin 
planet’s surface were not distinetly made out,—a circumstance 
aah As due to the fact that the intense ballianey of Mars in 
. Martin’s oie gs blotted them out. 
cu. ©. exhibited a working model pe an obser- 
vatory hei is erecting foe aye 10-inch silvered glass equatorial. 
A set of se seven capes for the fine refractor at je Sydney 
ese eye ei ranged in ciliate from 130 to 1,500, 
the eonateuatia after designs by Mr. Russell. A special feature 
their construction was the ease with which the lenses could 
be removed, and consequent lessening of risk of injury when 
een. them 
Mr. Russe f read a paper by Howard Grubb, F.R.A.S. 
of Dublin, on “ The’ eben of the future,” in which the author 
