The volume includes the Greenwich and Paris observations of the minor planets; circulars for the Berlin Jahrbuch, 1880; and announcements and observations of newly discovered asteroids by C.H.F. Peters and Coggias, in the form of telegrams and requests for ephemerides. There are also papers concerning comets, relating largely to the Great Southern Comet of 1880, with associated sunspot activity observed in New Zealand and Sir D. Gill's Cape of Good Hope observations. Other comets observed are Fayé's, Swift's, Schäberleon's and Hartwig's.