ABSTRACT
The moon, though nearer the earth than any other celestial body, and regarded as our own peculiar property, has from time to time suffered from a strange lack of interest among astronomers. Professor Weinek, of Prague, has studied the Lick photographs; and more recently in England, S. A. Saunder, one of the secretaries of the Royal Astronomical Society, has taken up the work of measurement of Paris photographs with a view to a complete selenographic index and atlas, in which, however, he finds great difficulty owing to the alarming want of uniformity in lunar nomenclature. We have noticed the progress of the theory, and now come to observation. We have noted the new Universal Transit Circle, with which it has been possible still further to reduce this error, though its use in fixed azimuths somewhat lessens the number of observations.
