46mins.
40secs.

p.m.
"5th.

It will meet the moon four days after its departure on December 4th, at midnight precisely, at the moment she arrives at her zenith.
"The members of the Gun Club ought, therefore, at once to commence the labour necessitated by such an enterprise, and be ready to put them into execution at the moment fixed upon, for they will not find the moon in the same conditions of perigee and zenith till eighteen years and eleven days later.
"The staff of the Observatory of Cambridge puts itself entirely at their disposition for questions of theoretic astronomy, and begs to join its congratulations to those of the whole of America.
"On behalf of the staff, "J.M.

BELFAST, "_Director of the Observatory of Cambridge_.".