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

in the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,
from 1841 to 1857.

1864 Jan. 8 Pontecoulant's Paper "Sur le Coefficiant R. Astr. Soc.
de l'Equation Parallactique deduit de la (Month. Not.)
Theorie," with Notes by G.B.A.

1864 Jan. 26 Remarks on Redman's Paper on the East Inst. C. E.
Coast (Chesil Bank, &c.). (Minutes.)

1864 Mar. 10 Note on a Passage in Capt. R. Astr. Soc.
Jacob's "Measures of Jupiter," &c. (Month. Not.)

1864 Mar. 11 Notes for the Committee on Weights and Ho. of Comm.
Measures, 1862. (Parly. Paper.)

1864 Mar. 17 On a Method of Slewing a Ship without Inst. Nav. Arch.
the aid of the Rudder.

1864 Apr. 5 Comparison of the Chinese Record of Solar R. Astr. Soc.
Eclipses in the Chun Tsew with the (Month. Not.)
Computations of Modern Theory.

1864 June 4 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
Board of Visitors.

1864 June 10 On the Transit of Venus, 1882, Dec. 6. R. Astr. Soc.
(Month. Not.)

1864 June 10 On the bright band bordering the Moon's R. Astr. Soc.
Limb in Photographs of Eclipses. (Month. Not.)

1864 Notes on Methods of Reduction
applicable to the Indian Survey.

1864 Sept. 3 A Visit to the Corryvreckan. Athenaeum.

1864 Sept. 29 Examination Paper for the Sheepshanks
Scholarship.

1865 Jan. 13 Comparison of the Transit-Instrument in R. Astr. Soc.
its ordinary or reversible form with the (Month. Not.)
Transit-Instrument in its
non-reversible form, as adopted at
Greenwich, the Cape of Good Hope, and
other Observatories.

1865 Mar. 9 Syllabus of a course of three Lectures
on "Magnetical Errors, &c., with special
reference to Iron Ships and their
Compasses," delivered at the South
Kensington Museum.

1865 Apr. 1 Remarks on Mr Ellis's Lecture on the Horolog. Journ.
Greenwich System of Time Signals.

1865 Apr. 1 Free Translation of some lines of Virgil, Athenaeum.
"Cithara crinitus Iopas," &c.

1865 June 3 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
Board of Visitors.

1865 June 17 Note on my Recommendation (in 1839) Athenaeum.
of Government Superintendence of the
Compasses of Iron Ships. Also Note on
the birthplace of Thomas Clarkson.

1865 July On Hemiopsy. Phil. Mag.

1865 Aug. 22 On the Value of the Moon's Semidiameter R. Astr. Soc.
as obtained by the Investigations of (Month. Not.)
Hugh Breen, Esq., from Occultations
observed at Cambridge and Greenwich.

1865 Sept. 16 On "The Land of Goshen"--Reply to "A Athenaeum.
Suffolk Incumbent."

1865 Oct. 21 Address of the Astronomer Royal to the
individual members of the Board of
Visitors. (On improved Collimators.)

1865 Oct. 23 Note on an Error of Expression in two R. Astr. Soc.
previous Memoirs. Also Description and (Month. Not.)
History of a Quadrant made by Abraham
Sharp.

1865 Nov. 11 On the Possible Derivation of the National Athenaeum.
Name "Welsh."

1865 Essays on the Invasion of Britain by Julius Private.
Caesar; The Invasion of Britain by
Plautius, and by Claudius Caesar; The Early
Military Policy of the Romans in Britain;
The Battle of Hastings. (With corr.)

1866 Mar. 10 On "The Compass in Iron Ships." Objections Athenaeum.
to passages in a Lecture by Archibald
Smith.

1866 Apr. 13 On the Supposed Possible Effect of R. Astr. Soc.
Friction in the Tides, in influencing the (Month. Not.)
Apparent Acceleration of the Moon's Mean
Motion in Longitude. Also on a Method
of Computing Interpolations to the
Second Order without Changes of
Algebraic Sign.

1866 June 2 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
Board of Visitors.

1866 July 17 Papers relating to Time Signals on the Ho. of Comm.
Start Point. (Parly. Paper.)

1866 Sept. 1 On the Campaign of Aulus Plautius in Athenaeum.
Britain. (Reply to Dr Guest.)

1866 Nov.