Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Band 22Priestley and Weale, 1862 Includes lists of additions to the Society's library, usually separately paged. |
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2r+g Alhazen Annex appears April Astronomer Royal bright Calculation Catalogue clock Comet comparison computed corrected crater dark Decl declination diameter difference disque distance Eclipse edge Egress envelope Ephemeris equations Equatoreal error excentricity eye-piece faint favourable Greenwich inches aperture ingress instruments July June Jupiter Jupiter's Satellites latitude light limb longitude Lunar m² e m² n² Mars mass Mean Solar measures Memoir meridian Monthly Notices Moon Moon's motion N.P.D. from Observation Nautical Almanac nearly Nebula nucleus obtained Occultation orbit parallax perihelion Phenomena of Jupiter's position Prof proper motion R.A. from Observation Radcliffe Radcliffe Observatory Right Ascension ring Royal Observatory Saturn shadow Sirius soleil spot star surface taches telescope term tion Transit of Mercury Variable Stars visible W. R. Dawes Weisse Winnecke ΙΟ
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Seite 137 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Seite 256 - If the whole excess in the motion of the perihelion of Mars is attributed to a ring of asteroids situate at a distance from the Sun equal to that of the Earth, the total mass of these asteroids will be somewhat greater than that of Mars, and will be equal to the fraction 0-138 of the mass of the Earth. 2°. If the whole excess is attributed to a group of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter (distance from the Sun between 2-2o and 3' 1 6) the total mass of the group will be about one third of that of...
Seite 332 - Considerations respecting the Figure of the Earth in relation to the Action of Centrifugal Force, and to the Attempts to determine the Ellipticity of the Globe by Pendulum Observations, 8vo. London, 1862 T'ie Academy Batavia, Verslag van de Geographische Dienst in Nederlandsch, 01 BatevTa8 at IudiS over Jan- l858 tot en met APril I8591 4to' Batavia, 1860 Naturkundig Tijdschrift, Deel 22, 23, 8vo.
Seite 143 - On the Proper Motion of Sirius in Declination. By Truman Henry Safford, Assistant at the Observatory of Harvard College. It is well known that Sirius exhibits irregularities of proper motion, both in Right Ascension and Declination. Bessel (Ast. Nach. Nos. 514-16), and Dr. CAF Peters, in a Memoir, " Ueber die eigene Bewegung der Sirius (Habilitationsschrift), Konigsberg, 1851,
Seite 133 - December lust." member Mr. Hartnup. In 1855 the Rev. JB Reade, who has distinguished himself by his discoveries in photography, obtained special notice and honorable mention at the Paris exhibition for his photograph of the moon. Others also have been taken at Rome by Signor Padre Secchi, at Brighton by Mr. Fry, and in the vicinity of London by Mr. Huggins. All these photographs possess merits of their own, and give decided promise of future and greater success. Admiral Smyth, in the Speculum Harttoettianum,...
Seite 9 - Schroter, though a clumsy, was a faithful draughtsman ; his views have the appearance of being each independently drawn, and they are under different angles of illumination, which often vary the size of small craters, so that here is fair evidence of volcanic action since 1792; the silence of Beer and Madler being characteristic, goes for little or nothing.
Seite 130 - MEDAL. Prof. Albrecht von Kolliker, For.Mem.RS The[Copley Medal is given to one who well deserves the highest honour that it is in the power of the Royal Society to confer. For nearly sixty years past Albrecht von Kolliker has made contributions of the highest value to histology, embryology, 'and comparative anatomy. Though his labours have embraced so wide a field, they have always been of a high order of excellence, and have often been of far-reaching...
Seite 29 - SIR, I AM commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you that, the...
Seite 325 - Whiting, George. The Products and Resources of Tasmania, as illustrated in the International Exhibition, 1862 ; with an Appendix, containing Papers on the Vegetable Products exhibited by Tasmania, by the Hon.
Seite 135 - ... apparatus made for him by Mr. Dalmeyer, after the pattern of the Kew photoheliograph. Mr. De La Rue announced at the last Meeting of the Society, that by applying the ste'reoscope to the examination of the Sun's disk, as he had formerly done in the case of the Moon, he had discovered that the...