IV. Further particulars of the transit of Venus across the Sun, December 9, 1874; observed on the Himalaya Mountains, Mussoorie, at Mary-Villa station, Lat. 30° 28' N., Long. 78° 3' E., height above sea 6,765 feet, with the Royal Society’s 5-inch equatoreal. Note III

1. The object of the present note is to add to Notes I and II some particulars of the transit not detailed in those notes. The latter contained only sufficient extracts from my observatory notes in connexion chiefly with the three contacts which I observed; as, however, various other facts, besides the contacts, were developed in course of the transit, and elicited remarks from me at the time, it seems desirable that a complete transcript of these observatory notes should also be put on record; both in connexion with what hereafter follows, and also to meet any possible future requirements of details, such as expressed by Captain Tupman in his discussion of the mean solar parallax.