BUILDERS OF Docks and Bridges. CONTRACTORS FOR ALL HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS, Dredging, Pile Driving. OFFICE,. 130 Water Street, NEW YORK. THORBURN'S JERSEY WAKEFIELD CABBAGE. J.M.Thorburn & Co. 15 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK, We will mail free on application our Catalogue of High Class Seeds, (Published on the 1st day of January of each year,) CONT ONTAINING the largest collection in the world, with illustrations, descriptions, and full directions for culture. Fall Bulb Catalogue, published in September, free on application. FOR 1896. HENRY ECKFORD RHOADES, Editor. ECLIPSES, 1896. (Astronomical calculations made expressly for The Tribune Almanac by Berlin H. Wright, Penn Yan, N. Y. A II. A partial eclipse of the moon February 28, invisible in Asia and Africa, it will be seen, of 10 digits in size. It returns and will be larger, and visible in North and South America. III. A total eclipse of the sun, August 8 and 9, invisible in America; visible in Europe and Asia, the total phase being seen in Siberia and Yezo. This returns again August 21, 1914, central in British America, Norway, Russia, India. There will be four eclipses this year-two each of the sun and moon: I. An annular eclipse of the sun February 13, invisible in the United States. partial eclipse will be visible in South Africa, at Cape of Good Hope, quite large, and in Brazil, very small. This eclipse returns again February 19, 1914, and in the Antarc tic Circle. In Europe, again March 10, 1914, 1914, IV. A partial eclipse of the moon August 22 and 23; visible in America generally. Size 8.8 digits on the southern limb. This returns September 4, 1914, larger and visible in Asia. N Μουλ 5 America. 3 N Day 22 *1:24 Mo. 22 *2:57 Mo. 4:30 Mo. *0:24 Mo.) H. M. August 23. TO FIND THE TIME OF GREATEST ELONGATION OF POLARIS. TABLE I. By adding the numbers in the annexed table for any given latitude to the time of meridian passage of Polaris (the Pole Star), in Table III, the time of its greatest western elongation is found. If the same number be subtracted instead of added, we get the time of greatest eastern elongation. At the time of either elon TABLE II. MEAN TIME OF SIDEREAL NOON, OR MERIDIAN PASSAGE OF THE VERNAL EQUINOX AT WASHINGTON, D. C., FOR 1896. (For other places, add 9.83 seconds for each hour of longitude east of Washington, and subtract 9.83 seconds for each hour of longitude west of Washington.) Morn. May. H. M. S. 5:07:50 3:05:57 1:11:56 11:10:02 9:12:05 7:10:12 5:12:15 3:10:21 1:08:28 11:06:35 9:04:42 7:06:45 5:03:54 3:02:01 1:08:00] 11:06:07 4:59:58 2:58:05 1:04:04 11:02:11 9:08:09 7:06:16 9:04:13] 29. :37 7:29:52 5:27:58) 7:03:49 5:08:19 3:06:26 1:04:32 11:02:39] 9:00:46 7:02:20 5:04:23 3:02:30 6:58:241 5:00:27 2:58:34 6:54:28 4:56:31 :00 3:22:09 1:24:12) 11:18:23 1:20:16 9:20:25 7:18:32 5:20:35 9:16:30 5:16:39 |