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 xii conceived. Astronomy is pre-eminently the science of order.

The immediate object of my Lectures would be obtained, if they should be found to offer some facilities to those who, acting under the inducements to which I have alluded, may endeavour to obtain a connected and accurate view of the principles of Astronomy. But I should think myself highly rewarded if I could believe that the insight into principles thus obtained, would induce any one to enter carefully into its details.

G. B. AIRY.

Royal Observatory, Greenwich.