Excerpt from The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: For the Year of Our Lord 1859, Being the Third After Bissextile or Leap Year Mars, in the constellations Pieces and Aries. On the 15th, passes the meridian at 2h. 26m. RM and sets at 9h. 33m. P.m. 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.