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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.

disagreements the few parallaxes we possess have laid a good foundation a for a knowledge of the dimensions of at least the nearer parts of the universe.

Map No. 25.

We find an interesting triple in ψ, the magnitudes of the larger components being four and a half and eight and a half, distance 30″. The smaller star has a nine-and-a-half-magnitude companion, distance 3″. A more beautiful triple is ι, magnitudes