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The disregarded: Nature, 14-469: Nature, 14-505: crossing the sun. observations related to still other large, planetary bodies, but arbitrarily, or hypnotically, disregarding-- or heroically disregarding--every one of them--that to formulate at all he had to exclude falsely. The denouement killed him, | think. I'm not at all inclined to place him with the Grays and Hitchcocks and Symonses. I'm not, because, though it was rather unsportsmanlike to put the date so far ahead, he did give a date, and he did stick to it with such a high approximation-- | think Leverrier was translated to the Positive Absolute. Observation, of July 26, 1819, by Gruthinson--but that was of two bodies that crossed the sun together-- That, according to the astronomer, J. R. Hind, Benjamin Scott, City Chamberlain of London, and Mr. Wray, had, in 1847, seen a body similar to "Vulcan" cross the sun. Similar observation by Hind and Lowe, March 12, 1849 (L'Annee Scientifique, 1876-9). Body of apparent size of Mercury, seen, Jan. 29, 1860, by F. A. R. Russell and four other observers, De Vico's observation of July 12, 1837 (Observatory, 2-424). L'Annee Scientifique, 1865-16: