238 REPORTS FROM THE SECTIONS. 
Notes on Jupiter during his Opposition, 1878. 
By G. D. Hirst. 
[Read before the Astronomical Section, 6 September, 1878.] 
I nave the pleasure of laying before youa few sketches of Jupiter, 
made this opposition. 
t the planet’s Ge sie in 1876 I was able tosecure a number 
of drawings, whic nad the honor of exhibiting to the Society 
at the August okt of that year; they were afterwards for- 8 
warded to Dr. Lohse, at Potsdam. In his letter acknowledging 
the receipt of these, he expressed a hope that the oppoe 7 
extremely favourable pay Ae ‘of Mars absorbed all our attention, 
to the exclusion of Jupiter, I cannot say, but I have since hear 
that Dr. Lohse has expressed a fi . the few drawings of Jupiter 
which reached his hands for that 
As the planet is still more ites oiabiy placed for observation 
in Europe this year, by reason of his increased southern declina- 
tion, the doctor has again appealed to us not to let the opposition 
of i year Baye unrecorded. 
ings I have to exhibit are but few, as unfavourable 
weather eaaly | in the opposition, and other demands upon my time, 
have prevented me from making any regular observations ; still, as 
far as they go, they may be considered typical of the most eben 2 
and permanent features of the planet as fairly as I can represent 
them at By present time. They have been drawn principally from 
who examined the planet with a silvered glass mirror of his own 
make. Now if you will compare the drawings before you, made 
from the reflector, with those from the refractor, you will see that 
