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treatment I have applied to every observation without oblamid, and with great satisfaction as regards its practical use, and I am now intending forthwith to discuss the data I have derived from several points of view, but mainly with reference to distribution in the body of the Sun, to period of rotation of the centres of emission, which I at least suspect may be different to that of the surface. Why I mention all this to you is principally because I foresee during this year some interruption to my observations from perhath absences from home on foreign travel, and an anxious to find/finish/provide against the heats in the series which may marvidally occur if I continue to be the only observer of this sort. And I want to ask if you, as having interested yourself in this inquiry, having an excellent climate, and a fixed observatory, and being impressed with the important beaming/bearing of the subject in question

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