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1893; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 48; Issue: 1249 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/048560c0

1476-4687

de Lacaze-Duthiers in the chair.-M.Faye, in presenting the Connaissance des Temps for 1896, being volume ccxviii., pointed out some improvements newly introduced.The tables of the fundamental stars contain their magnitudes, their mean coordinates at the commencement of the tropical year, their variation and proper motion, and the dates at which the hour stars pass the meridian at noon and midnight.-Thegeographical coordinates of Tananarive and the observatory of Ambohidempona (founded at Madagascar by the Rev. Father Colin), by M. Alfred Grandidier_-0n th,e spectroscopic observations made at the Mount Blanc