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I 5 . S. I find an obfervation of mine of the lunar eclipfe 
of May 7th, 1762, printed in the Philofophical 
Tranfadtions Vol. L 1 I. pag. 543. How it got there 
I know not, never having thought it worthy the no- 
tice of the Royal Society. Belides, in the three ob- 
fervations there faid to be made at Mr. Short s before 
the eclipfe, the equation (I fuppofe by my own mil- 
take) is fubftrafled , which fhould have been added to 
give the apparent time j and die three apparent times 
there fet down, are to be increafed each by 4' 16" 
to make them the true ones. J. B. 
XIX. Obfervations on the Eclipfe of the 
Sun, April 1, 1764 : In a Letter to the 
Rev. Thomas Birch, D. D. Secret. R, S. 
from Mr. James Fergufon, F. R. S. 
Reverend Sir, Liverpool, April 2, 1764* 
Read April S-TJAVING been at this place ever 
‘ 7 6 4 * Jl i fince the beginning of March, and 
hoping that the fky would prove favourable (as, to my 
great joy it did) for obferving both the lunar eclipfe 
of March 17th, and the folar eclipfe of yeflerday, I 
propofed to captain Hutchinfon, at whole houfe I 
flay, to have a meridian line drawn on the leads on 
the top of his houfe, in order to adjufl his clock, for 
obferving the times of thefe eclipfes by : and we got 
Mr. Holden, who is mailer of a mathematical fchool 
here, to do it for us, by fevcral obfervations of the 
altitude 
