THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
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tured to settle, and louud in May, 'June and 
July the greatest abundance of honey flowers 
growing in vast quantities. The main flower 
belongs to the Syringa Philadelphus, if I am 
right, a single white flower growing on a shrub 
Irom six to twelve feet high, and covered with 
these white flowers in great beautiful masses, 
making the air redolent with the smell of honey. 
It only requires a small capital for the cost of 
bringing the bees here, and in these mountains 
there is only the bears and the winter to disturb 
you. The description of the unsettled portion 
would furnish enough interesting letters to 
keep you in correspondence the whole season. 
But if you are not interested, if you will hand 
this to some one likely to be interested enough 
to try the experiment I shafl be satisfied. 
Yours very truly, 
James M. Hamilton, Ass't Engineer, 
Boise City, Idaho, Sept. 7th, 1883. 
Astronomy for Amateurs— October. 
BY BERLIN H. WRIGHT. 
THE PLANETS.— OCTOBER, 1883. 
{AH Computations are for the Latitude and 
Meridian of New York City.) 
Mercury may be seen in the latter part of Oc- 
tober, being a morning star (at greatest western 
elongation), and brightest Oct. 22d to 25th. He 
rises as follows: 
Oct. 20th— 4 47 morn., Ih. 30m. before sunrise. 
/ 25th— 4 55 " Ih. 28m. 
" 30th— 5 17 " Ih. 12m. 
and about 12° north of the sunrise point, and 2° 
south of east point. 
He will be moving eastward past the stars of 
the constellation Virgo, being in conjunction 
with the 3d mag. star Gamma Virginis on the 
20th, and only about 1° south of that star. On 
the 27th he will be 5° 20' north of the bright 
star Spica Virginis, and on the 29th 3° north of 
the Moon. 
Venus, although an evening star, will scarcely 
become visible this month, setting, as she does, 
on the 30th at 5.24 eve. 
Mars is still a late riser. He is in the cluster 
of small stars called Pr^esepe in Cancer on the 
24th; in conjunction with Jupiter on the 19th, 
, being only 1° north of the giant planet, and 7° 
north of the Moon' on the 23d. Mars rises as 
follows : 
October 10th— 11 25 evening. 
20th— 11 10 
30th— 10 54 
Jitpiter is passed by Mars on the 19th, previous 
to which time he was to the east of Mars. He 
rises as follows : 
October 10th— 11 45 evening. 
20th-ll 11 
30th— 10 36 
The Moon passes 5^ south of Jupiter on the 
23d, and he reaches his western quadrature on 
the 27th. 
Saturn is retrogi'ading or moving westward 
past the stars near the Hyades, and rising at a 
verj^ convenient hour, as follows : 
October 10th— 8 3 evening. 
" • 20th— 7 23 
30th— 6 41 
Neptune is now nearly at apposition to the 
Sun, at which time he is brightest, but even 
under these favorable circumstances a good in- 
strument and a precise knowledge of his loca- 
tion is necessary to find him. He passes the 
Meridian as follows : 
Oct. 10th— 2 0 morning in B.A.3h. l4m. + 16° 9' 
" 20th— 1 20 " " 3h. 13m. + 16° 5' 
" 30th— 0 40 " " 3h. 12m. 4- 16° 1' 
He may be found 8° a trifle west of south of 
the Pleiades. 
ECLIPSES. 
Two of the four eclipses of this year occur in 
the month of October. The first is a Partial 
Eclipse of the Moon, October 15-16, visible 
throughout this country. See the following 
table, where the evening time occurs on th(^ 
15th and the morning on the 16th. 
TABLE OF PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON, 
OCTOBER 15-16, 1883. 
Eclipse 
Begins. 
Middle 
of Eclipse. 
Eclipse 
Ends. 
H. 
M 
H. 
M. 
H. 
M 
Albany, N. Y 
3 
m'. 
I 
59 m. 
2 
55 
m. 
11 
27 
e. 
0 
23 m. 
19 
m. 
Baltimore, Md 
o 
52 
m. 
I 
48 m. 
2 
44 
m. 
Boston, Mass 
14 
m. 
2 
10 m. 
3 
6 
m. 
Buffalo, N Y 
Charleston, S. C 
o 
42 
m. 
I 
38 m 
2* 
34 
m. 
o 
38 
m. 
I 
34 m- 
2 
30 
m, 
o 
7 
m. 
3 m- 
59 
m. 
Cincinnati, O 
o 
20 
m. 
I 
16 m 
2 
12 
m. 
Denver, Colorado 
ID 
58 
e. 
II 
54 e.. 
0 
50 
m. 
Galveston, Texas 
11 
39 
e. 
0 
35 m. 
31 
m. 
39 
e. 
0 
35 m- 
I 
31 
m. 
Nashville, Tenn 
o 
II 
m. 
1 
7 m. 
2 
3 
m. 
New Haven, Conn 
6 
m. 
2 
2 m. 
I 
58 
m. 
1 1 
58 
e. 
0 
54 m- 
I 
50 
m. 
New York City 
I 
2 
m. 
58 m. 
2 
54 
m- 
Omaha, Neb 
II 
34 
e. 
0 
30 m. 
I 
26 
m. 
Philadelphia, Pa 
o 
57 
m. 
I 
53 m- 
2 
49 
m. 
13 
m. 
2 
Q m. 
3 
5 
m. 
Richmond, Va 
o 
48 
m. 
44 
2 
40 
m. 
Rochester, N. Y 
o 
47 
m. 
43 m. 
2 
39 
ITU 
San Francisco, Cal 
St. Louis, Mo 
St. Paul, Minn 
9 
48 
e. 
10 
44 e. 
40 
e. 
57 
e. 
0 
53 m- 
T 
49 
m. 
46 
e. 
0 
42 m. 
I 
38 
m. 
Washington, D. C 
o 
50 
m. 
I 
46 m 
2 
42 
Size of Eclipse = 3.36 Digit; 
The second is an Annular Eclipse of the Sun, 
October 30th, visible as a partial eclipse on the 
southern limb of the Sun in the Pacific States ; 
