Excerpt from Annual Report of the Director of Harvard College Observatory: Presented to the Visiting Committee, November 14, 1878 The equatorial Observations have been made under my own immediate direction, by Messrs. Searle and Upton, and by myself. The East Equatorial has been used on two hundred and thirty nine nights during the year ending Oct. 31, 1878, mainly in a continuation of the photometric work projected last year. About photometric Observations have been Obtained in the fifteen months during which the telescope has been at work). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.