[FLATTENINGS ON THE MOON’S WESTERN LIMB.—­About thirty years ago, the Rev. Henry Cooper Key drew attention to certain flattenings which he had noted on the W. limb, which are very apparent under favourable conditions of libration.  Their position cannot be closely defined, but the principal deviation from circularity extends from about S. lat. 10 deg. to the region on the limb opposite the S. border of the Mare Crisium.]

VENDELINUS.—­The second great enclosure pertaining to the meridional chain—­a magnificent walled-plain of about the same dimensions as the last.  It is bounded by a very irregular rampart, which, under evening illumination, is especially noteworthy, though nowhere approaching the altitude of that of Langrenus.  Its continuity on the W. is broken by the great ring-plain Vendelinus C, about 50 miles in diameter, a formation resembling Langrenus in miniature.  This is hexagonal in shape, and has many rings and depressions on its W. wall.  South of Vendelinus C, the wall of Vendelinus runs up in a bold curve to the fine terraced ring-plain Vendelinus B, and is surmounted by a bright serpentine crest, and traversed by several valleys running down the slope to the floor.  B has a small crater on its N. wall, and another in the interior.  There is a wide gap in the S. border of Vendelinus, which is partially occupied by another somewhat smaller ring-plain, bounded by a southerly extension of the E. wall, which includes on its outer slope many craters and other depressions, and abuts near its N. end on the large ring-plain Vendelinus A, which has a prominently terraced wall and a large bright central mountain.  Between A and C extends a plateau that may be regarded as the N. limit of the formation, including, among other minor details, a fine cleft, which traverses it from N. to S., and ultimately extends to a group of craters on the floor.  On the S. side of the interior is one large ring-plain, flanked on the W. by two small craters.  Near the N. end are many bright little craters, many of them unrecorded.  Vendelinus C is bordered on the E. by two large semicircular formations with low walls extending on to the floor.  Mr. W.H.  Maw and others have detected many minute depressions in connection with these curious objects; and N. of them, on the outer slope of C, where it runs out to the level of the plateau, I have seen the surface at sunset riddled like a sieve with craterlets and little pits.  There is an irregular ring-plain N. of A, with linear walls, and another, much smaller and brighter, on the N. of this, standing a little beyond the N. limits of Langrenus.

LA PEYROUSE.—­A much foreshortened walled-plain, 41 miles in diameter, close to the limb, S.W. of Langrenus.  There is a longitudinal ridge on the floor.  Between it and Langrenus are two large ring-plains with central mountains, and on the N.E., La Peyrouse A, a bright crater, adjoining which is La Peyrouse DELTA, one of the most brilliant spots on the moon.