Excerpt from The Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Forty-Seventh Congress, 1882-'83, Vol. 7 The contents of the present volume of The American Ephemeris are, in general, similar to those of the volume for the preceding year. Beginning with the volume for the year 1882, the arrangement of the work is as follows: Part I, Ephemeris for the Meridian of Greenwich, gives the positions Of the major planets, and other fundamental astronomical data for equidistant intervals Of Greenwich mean time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.