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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 803




NEW YORK, May 23, 1891

Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XXXI., No. 803.

Scientific American established 1845

Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year.

Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year.


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TABLE OF CONTENTS.


I. ASTRONOMY.--The Great Equatorial of the Paris Observatory.--