Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy, George Biddell Airy [dark books to read TXT] 📗

of a Letter from Prof. Lament Phil. Mag.
on Dalton's Theory of Vapour, &c.

1862 Nov. 6 On the Strains in the Interior of Beams. Phil. Trans.

1862 Nov. Correspondence with Sabine concerning
his attack on the Greenwich Magnetic
Observations. (Confidentially
communicated to the Board of Visitors.)

1862 Nov. 21 Evidence given before the Public Schools
Commission.

1862 Nov. Abstract of M. Auwers's Paper on the R. Astr. Soc.
proper motion of Procyon, and Note on (Month. Not.)
same.

1862 Dec. Abstract of Mr Safford's Paper on the R. Astr. Soc.
Proper Motion of Sirius. Also on the (Month. Not.)
Forms of Lenses proper for the Negative
Eye-pieces of Telescopes. Also on the
measurements of the Earth, and the
dimensions of the Solar System. Also
on Fringes of Light in Solar Eclipses.

1863 Jan. Address to the Board of Visitors on a
further attack by Sabine on the Greenwich
Magnetic Observations (confidential).

1863 Jan. 9 On the Observations of Saturn made at R. Astr. Soc.
Pulkowa and Greenwich. (Month. Not.)

1863 Feb. 24 Report to the Board of Trade on the
Proposed Lines of Railway through
Greenwich Park.

1863 Mar. 2 Determination of the Longitude of Valencia
in Ireland by Galvanic Signals in the
summer of 1862 (App. III. to the Gr.
Astr. Obsns. 1862).

1863 Mar. 13 On the Movement of the Solar System in R. Astr. Soc.
Space, deduced from the Proper Motions (Memoirs.)
of 1167 Stars. By Edwin Dunkin (for
G.B.A.).

1863 Mar. 13 On the Visibility of Stars in the Pleiades R. Astr. Soc.
to the unarmed eye. (Month. Not.)

1863 Mar. 21 On Marriage Odes. Athenaeum.

1863 Apr. 9 Further Report as to the Probable Effects
of the London, Chatham and Dover
Railway on the Royal Observatory in
Greenwich Park.

1863 Apr. 10 Determination of the Sun's Parallax from R. Astr. Soc.
observations of Mars during the (Month. Not.)
Opposition of 1862. By E.J. Stone (for
G.B.A.). Also Remarks on Struve's
account of a Local deviation in the
direction of Gravity, near Moscow. Also
an Account of an apparatus for the
observation of the spectra of stars, and
results obtained.

1863 Apr. 23 On the Diurnal Inequalities of Phil. Trans.
Terrestrial Magnetism, as deduced from
observations made at the Royal
Observatory, Greenwich, from 1841
to 1857.

1863 May 8 On the Discordance between the Results R. Astr. Soc.
for Zenith-Distances obtained by Direct (Memoirs.)
Observation, and those obtained by
Observation by Reflection from the
Surface of Quicksilver.

1863 June 6 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
Board of Visitors.

1863 July 2 On the Amount of Light given by the R. Astr. Soc.
Moon at the greatest stage in the (Month. Not.)
Excentrically-total Eclipse, 1863,
June 1.

1863 Aug. Plan of the Buildings and Grounds of the
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, with
Explanation and History.

1863 Sept. 5 On the origin of the apparent luminous R. Astr. Soc.
band which, in partial eclipses of the (Month. Not.)
Sun, has been seen to surround the
visible portion of the Moon's limb.

1863 Sept. 5 On the Invasions of Britain by Julius Athenaeum. 1863 Oct. 3 Caesar.

1863 Oct. 17 The Earthquake as observed from Greenwich. Athenaeum.

1863 Nov. On the Numerical Expression of the Phil. Mag.
Destructive Energy in the Explosions
of Steam-Boilers, &c.

1863 Nov. 13 Convention arranged between M. Le Verrier R. Astr. Soc.
and the Astronomer Royal for meridional (Month. Not.)
observations of the small Planets, &c.

1863 Nov. 13 Translation of Hansen's Paper R. Astr. Soc.
"Calculation of the Sun's Parallax (Month. Not.)
from the Lunar Theory," with Notes by
G.B.A.

1863 Dec. 17 First Analysis of 177 Magnetic Storms, Phil. Trans.
registered by the Magnetic Instruments