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SCIENTIFIC SUMMARY. 
ASTRONOMY. 
*J!RANSIT of Venus. — Since our last Summary appeared, news, more or 
less complete, has been received from all stations. The following list 
of stations, partly taken from one compiled by the Astronomer Royal, in- 
cludes all those at which observations were successfully made : — 
Sandwich Islands . — Honolulu and Waimea. 
China and Japan. — Pekin, Chefoo, Saigon, Kobe, Nagasaki, and Yoko- 
hama. 
Russia in Asia. — Wladiwostock, Arianda, Tschita, Nertschinsk, Possiet, 
ITaborowka, and Kiachta. 
India . — Roorkee, Indore, Calcutta, Kurrachee, Mooltan, Mussoorie, Um- 
balla, and Maddapore. 
Syria and Persia. — Beyrout, Ispahan, and Teheran. 
Rgypt. — Mokattam Heights, near Cairo, Alexandria, Suez, and ruins of 
Luxor, Thebes. 
S.E. Europe. — Clausenberg, Maros Vasarheiy, and Jassy. 
Java . — Buitenzorg. 
Australia. — Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. 
Tasmania . — Hobart Town. 
New Zealand . — Queenstown. 
Southern Islands. — Auckland Islands, St. Paul’s Island, New Caledonia, 
Kerguelen Island, Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Reunion. 
Cape of Good Hope. — The royal observatory. 
The Delislean operations for ingress were moderately successful ; those 
Tor egress, owing to the unfortunate prevalence of bad weather at Major 
Palmer’s station in New Zealand, were less successful. In fact, but for the 
success of the Germans at Auckland Island (one of the geographical myths), 
operations would have failed at all the best Delislean southern stations, and 
thus the northern success in Egypt would have been rendered useless. 
Halleyan operations, including under that term those photographic and 
heliometric operations which were conducted at stations whence the whole 
transit could be seen, were favoured by fortune. It is not too much to 
say that the determination of the sun’s distance actually effected from the 
observations made last December, will owe five-sixths of its value to the 
-observations made at stations where the whole transit could be seen. It is 
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