. The century illustrated monthly magazine . 81 wassuccessfully observed at Lick Obser-vatory by Professor Edward S. Hol-den ; and Professor Simon Newcombat one time thought of adopting itas his station for observing the transitof Venus, December 7, 1882. Anexamination of the meteorologicalrecord of the mountain and of theState generally, as far back as suchhad been kept, showed, however, anunfavorable condition of weather pre-vailing on or about that date. ProfessorNewcomb therefore abandoned the ideaand went to the Cape of Good Hope. After hehad thus decided, President Floyd invited Pro-fess
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . 81 wassuccessfully observed at Lick Obser-vatory by Professor Edward S. Hol-den ; and Professor Simon Newcombat one time thought of adopting itas his station for observing the transitof Venus, December 7, 1882. Anexamination of the meteorologicalrecord of the mountain and of theState generally, as far back as suchhad been kept, showed, however, anunfavorable condition of weather pre-vailing on or about that date. ProfessorNewcomb therefore abandoned the ideaand went to the Cape of Good Hope. After hehad thus decided, President Floyd invited Pro-fessor David P. Todd of Amherst College todirect the observations of the transit which ithad been fully resolved should be made, weatherpermitting. The invitation was accepted, andthe results were of the most satisfactory char-acter. The weather was remarkably air was absolutely tranquil, the sky cloud-less, the temperature never falling to sixtydegrees, and rising nearly to seventy degreesin the shade at noon. Observations of the. IN THE TRANSIT HOUSE — TAKING AN OBSERVATION.
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