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

Aug. 7 Note on Atmospheric Chromatic Dispersion R. Astr. Soc.
as affecting Telescopic Observation, and (Month. Not.)
on the Mode of Correcting it.

1869 Oct. 19 Description of the Great Equatoreal of
the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
Greenwich Observations, 1868. App.

1870 Feb. 3 Note on an Extension of the Comparison Phil. Trans.
of Magnetic Disturbances with Magnetic
Effects inferred from observed Terrestrial
Galvanic Currents; &c. &c.

1870 Apr. 8 On the question of a Royal Commission Journ. Soc. Arts.
for Science.

1870 May 2 Letters to the First Lord of the Admiralty
enclosing Application of the Assistants
for an increase of Salaries.

1870 May 13 On Decimal and Metrical Systems. Journ. Soc. Arts.

1870 June 4 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
Board of Visitors.

1870 Aug. 27 On the meaning of the word "Whippultree." Athenaeum.

1870 Oct. 22 On the Locality of "Paradise." Athenaeum.

1870 Nov. 12 On the Locality of the Roman Gesoriacum. Athenaeum.

1870 Nov. 30 Recommendation of Prof. Miller for a R. Soc.(Proc.)
Royal Medal of the Royal Society.
(Quoted by the President.)

1870 Revised Edition of "Astronomy." Man. Naut. Sci.

1871 Jan. 21 The Burial of Sir John Moore. Athenaeum.

1871 Mar. 14 Letter to the Hydrographer of the
Admiralty on the qualifications and
claims of the Assistants of the Royal
Observatory.

1871 Apr. 5 Remarks on the Determination of a Ship's R. Soc. (Proc.)
Place at Sea.

1871 May 2 Remarks on Samuelson's Paper "Description Inst. C.E.
of two Blast Furnaces," &c. (Minutes.)

1871 May 3 Note on Barometric Compensation of the Phil. Mag.
Pendulum.

1871 June 3 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
Board of Visitors.

1871 June 9 Remarks on Mr Abbott's observations on R. Astr. Soc.
eta Argus. Also on A.S. Herschel's and (Month. Not.)
J. Herschel's Mechanism for measuring
Time automatically in taking Transits.

1871 Erratum in Results of Greenwich R. Astr. Soc.
Observations of the Solar Eclipse of 1860, (Month. Not.)
July 18. Also Observations of the Solar
Eclipse of 1870, Dec. 21-22, made at the
Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

1871 Aug. Investigation of the Law of the Progress Phil. Mag.
of Accuracy in the usual process for
Forming a Plane Surface.

1871 Nov.16 Corrections to the Computed Lengths of Phil. Trans.
Waves of Light for Kirchhoff's Spectral
Lines.

1871 On a supposed alteration in the amount R. Soc. (Proc.)
of Astronomical Aberration of Light,
produced by the passage of the Light
through a considerable thickness of
Refracting Medium.

1871 Nov. 29 Biography of G.B. Airy. (Probably Daily Telegraph.
corrected by himself.)

1871 Dec. 8 Note on a special point in the R. Astr. Soc.
determination of the Elements of the (Month. Not.)
Moon's Orbit from Meridional Observations
of the Moon.

1871 Dec. 26 Proposed devotion of an Observatory to R. Astr. Soc.
observation of the phenomena of Jupiter's (Month. Not.)
Satellites.

1872 Jan. Address to the Council of the Royal Society
on the propriety of continuing the Grant
to the Kew Observatory for meteorological
observations.

1872 Feb. 8 Experiments on the Directive Power of Phil. Trans.
large Steel Magnets, of Bars of
magnetized Soft Iron, and of Galvanic
Coils, in their Action on external small
Magnets--with Appendix by James Stuart.

1872 Feb. 12 Further Observations on the state of an Camb. Phil. Soc.
Eye affected with a peculiar malformation.

1872 Mar. 20 Notes on Scientific Education, submitted
to the Royal Commission on Scientific
Instruction and the Advancement of
Science.

1872 May 9 On a Supposed Periodicity in the R. Soc. (Proc.)
Elements of Terrestrial Magnetism, with a
period of 26-1/4 days.

1872 Nov. 30 Address (as President) delivered at the
Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Society.

1872 Dec. 19 Magnetical Observations in the Phil. Trans.
Britannia and Conway Tubular Iron
Bridges.

1873 Feb. 25 Remarks on Mr Thornton's Paper on Inst. C.E.
"The State Railways