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Hazy     [[strikeout]] MONDAY [[/strikeout]] [[script]] WEDNESDAY [[/script]], [[preprinted]]MARCH 2[[7 overwritten with 9]], 1865.[[/preprinted]]
Made a mistake in moving over two leaves the entry for Monday was under the head of Wednesday.
Carts employed in carrying the debris of the fire on the field
Mr Rhees  confined to bed - 
Arrival of box from Germany also from Belgium the cost of letters very great
Miss Le Corint left us after a visit of a week or more.
Mr. Fines was not at the Inst[[on superscripted]] today has leave of absence will go on has gone out of the city on account of his health
Mr. Newcome of the Observatory presented the first part of his paper on the orbit of the Planet Neptune. So he printed.
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Hazy     [[preprinted]]TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1865.[[/preprinted]]   wind  S.E.
Spent last evening in experimenting on the radiation of heat from lights in the ceiling of the room of the House of Representatives Found today by ascertaining the values of the scale of the air thermometers employed that the effect was less than a fraction of a degree The intensity of the radiation is not probably given by this result since the stationary point is that done cooling and heating.
-------------------------The beams of the ceiling though perfectly straight appeared in the thin light of the room arched  Perhaps the same result may be produced in the full light of day.
Went with Dr. Withenall to the top of the dome of the Capitol. Took the difference between the wet and dry bulb. The airborne  and in the air - the height of the barometer above and below. But little who access the dome from side to side. The painter of the dome Mr Bramidice has marked out out the likeness of Morse [[image - x with 4 dot symbol]] to which I shall object.

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