Excerpt from Report of the Meteorological Service of the Dominion of Canada: For the Year Ending December 31, 1887 Numerous determinations of the collimation error of the transit instrument have been made, chiefly by micrometrical measurements on the cross wires in the collima ting telescope. The meteorological and magnetic work has been continued as in previous years, and the preparation of the tabular matte1 for the report of the wo1k during the year July, 1882 to July, 1883, has been continued, but owing to the insufficiency of the staff it is not yet completed. The death Of T. Menzies, obser, ve1 and the appointment of his son, William Menzies, to succeed him has been noticed In my report of the Meteorological Service. 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.