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from home, but at the end of October, 1845,
he called again, and left a paper with full
particulars of his results, which had, for
the most part, reduced the discrepancies to
about 1”. As a matter of fact, it has since
been found that the heliocentric place of the
new planet then given was correct within
ˆ
about 2A.
Airy wrote expressing his interest, and
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