December 26, 1884.] 



SCIEN6] 



577 



CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES, 1885. 



Dominical letter D 



Epact 14 



Lunar cycle or Golden number 5 



Solar cycle 18 



Roman indiction 13 



Julian period 6598 



FIXED AND MOVABLE FESTIVALS OF 

 THE CHURCH, 1885. 



Epiphany Jan. 6 



Septuagesima Sunday Feb. 1 



Ouinquagesima (Shrove Sunday). . . . Feb. 15 



Ash Wednesday Feb. 18 



First Sunday in Lent Feb. 22 



St. Patrick March 17 



Palm Sunday . .' March 29 



Good Friday' April 3 



Easter Sunday April 5 



Low Sunday April 1 2 



Rogation Sunday May 10 



Ascension Day (Holy Thursday) .... May 14 



Pentecost (Whit Sunday) May 24 



Trinity Sunday May 31 



Corpus Christi June 4 



St. John Baptist (Midsummer Day) . . . June 24 



Michaelmas Day Sept. 29 



First Sunday in Advent Nov. 29 



Christmas Day Dec. 25 



MORNING AND EVENING STARS, 1885. 



Mercury will be visible as morning-star about 

 Jan. 26, May 25, and Sept. 15 ; and as evening-star 

 about April 8, Aug. 6, and Nov. 30. 



Venus will be morning-star till May 4, then 

 evening-star the rest of the year. 



Mars will be evening-star till Feb. n, 

 morning-star the rest of the year. 



Jupiter will be morning-star till Feb. 18 

 evening-star till Sept. 8, and morning-star again 

 the rest of the year. 



Saturn will be evening-star till June 18, then 

 morning-star till Dec. 26, and evening-star again 

 the rest of the year. 



then 

 then 



SEASONS, 1885. 



(Eastern standard.) 



Spring begins March 20, 5 h a.m. 



Summer " June 21, 2 h a.m. 



Autumn " Sept. 22, 4 h p.m. 



Winter " Dec. 21, io h a.m. 



TIDE TABLE. 



The table of tides is limited to points on the 

 Atlantic coast, as the tides on the Pacific coast are 

 of so complicated a character that it would be 

 impossible to refer to them by the simple table of 

 reduction as given. The actual times of the oc- 

 currence of high and low water are much affected 

 by the force of the wind, a difference of fifteen 

 minutes between prediction and observation often 

 being brought about. 



5~'* 



Intervals to be applied to the standard time of high 

 water at New York, found in the calendar pages. 



Eastport, Me 



Mount Desert Island, Me 



Belfast, Me 



Portland, Me 



Portsmouth, N.H 



Newburyport, Mass 



Ipswich, Mass 



Rockport, Mass 



Gloucester, Mass 



Marblehead, Mass 



Salem, Mass 



Plymouth, Mass 



Provincetown, Mass 



Hyannis, Mass 



Nantucket, Mass 



Vineyard Haven, Mass 



Wood's Holl (north side) , Mass 



Wood's Holl (south side) , Mass 



New Bedford entrance (Dumpling R.), Mass. . j 



Fall River, Mass 



Newport, R.I 



Point Judith, R.I 



Montauk Point, R.I 



Watch Hill, R.I 



Stonington, Conn 



New London, Conn 



Norwich, Conn. 



New Haven, Conn 



Bridgeport, Conn 



New Rochelle, N.Y 



West Point, N.Y 



Albany and Greenbush, N.Y 



Brooklyn (navy-yard), N.Y 



Newark, N.J 



Sandy Hook, N.J 



Barnegat,N.J. 



Cape May Landing, N.J 



Delaware Breakwater, Del 



Delaware City, Del 



New Castle, Del 



Philadelphia, Penn 



Annapolis, Md 



Baltimore, Md 



Havre de Grace, Md 



Point Lookout, Md 



Washington (Long Bridge), D.C 



Norfolk (navy-yard), Va 



Richmond, Va 



Hatteras Inlet, N.C 



Beaufort, N.C 



Wilmington, N.C 



Smithville, N.C 



Charleston (new Custom-House wharf), S.C. 



Beaufort, S.C 



Savannah (dry dock) , Ga 



Fernandina, Fla 



St. John's River (entrance) , Fla 



St. Augustine, Fla 



Cape Florida, Fla 



Key West, Fla 



Cedar Key.:, Fla 



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52 j 



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48 I 



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36 i 



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