[ 6n ] 
C. The Observations of the internal ContaSl of 
Venus with the Sun’s Limb , in the late 
Tranfit , made in different Places of Europe, 
compared with the Tune of the fajne ContaB 
obferved at the Cape of Good Hope, and 
the Parallax of the Sun from thence deter- 
mined . By James Short, A. M. F. R. S. 
Read Dec. g, TN the fummer of the year 1760, the 
1 ~ 6z ‘ ^ Royal Society refolved to fend feme 
proper perfons to proper places of the globe, in order 
to obferve the tranfit of Venus, which was to hap- 
pen on the 6th of June, 1761. In confequence of 
this refolution, they appointed meffieursMafkelyne and 
Waddington to go to the illand of St. Helena, and 
meffieurs Mafon and Dixon to go to Bencoolen, a fet- 
tlement belonging to the Eaft India Company, on 
the illand of Sumatra. Two reflecting telefcopes of 
2 feet focal length each, with an objedt glafs micro- 
meter of 40 feet focus adapted to one of them, an 
aftronomical clock, and an equal-altitude ihftrument 
were ordered, by the fociety, for each of thofe places. 
The munificence of his late and preient Majefty, pa- 
trons of the Royal Society, defrayed the expence. 
Mr. Malkelyne and his afliftant arrived at St. He- 
lena in the month of April 1761 ; but Mr. Mafon 
and his affiftant, being detained at Plymouth by an 
accident, on their arrival at the Cape of Good Hope 
in the month of April 1761, found it was too late 
to 
