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

Jupiter and of the Sun, obtained at the (Month. Not.)
Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

1877 Jan. Stars to be compared in R.A. with Mars, R. Astr. Soc.
1877, for Determination of the Parallax (Month. Not.)
of Mars.

1877 Mar. Note by the Astronomer Royal on the R. Astr. Soc.
Numerical Lunar Theory. Also Remarks (Month. Not.)
on Le Verrier's intra-Mercurial Planet.
Also on Observations for the Parallax of
Mars.

1877 Mar. 27 Remarks on a Paper on "The River Inst. C.E.
Thames." (Minutes.)

1877 Apr. On observing for Le Verrier's intra-Mercurial R. Astr. Soc.
Planet. Also on the Parallax of (Month. Not.)
Mars, and Mr Gill's proposed expedition.

1877 May On the vulgar notion that the Sun or Moon The Observatory
is smallest when overhead. (No. 2).

1877 June 2 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
Board of Visitors.

1877 July 16 Report on the Telescopic Observations of Ho. of Commons
the Transit of Venus 1874, made in the Parly. Paper.
Expedition of the British Government,
and on the Conclusion derived from
those Observations.

1877 Sept. 13 On Spurious Discs of Stars produced by The Observatory
oval object-glasses. (No. 7).

1877 Sept. 24 Obituary Notice of the work of Le Daily News.
Verrier--died Sept. 23, 1877.

1877 Nov. 20 On the Value of the Mean Solar Parallax The Observatory
&c. from the British telescopic Observations (No. 8).
of the Transit of Venus 1874.
Also Remarks on Prof. Adams's Lunar
Theory.

1877 Nov. On the Inferences for the Value of Mean R. Astr. Soc.
Solar Parallax &c. from the Telescopic (Month. Not.)
Observations of the Transit of Venus
1874, which were made in the British
Expedition for the Observation of that
Transit.

1877 Numerical Lunar Theory: Appendix to
Greenwich Astronomical Observations
1875.

1877 Dec. 6 On the Tides at Malta. Phil. Trans.

1878 Correspondence with Le Verrier on his The Observatory
Planetary Tables in 1876. (No. 10).

1878 On the Proposal of the French Committee The Observatory
to erect a Statue to Le Verrier. Also (No. 13).
on the Observation of the approaching
Transit of Mercury.

1878 Mar. 11 On the Correction of the Compass in Phil. Mag.
Iron Ships without use of a Fixed
Mark.

1878 Mar. 30 On the Standards of Length in the The Times.
Guildhall, London.

1878 Apr. 27 Report of Lecture on "The probable W. Cumberland
condition of the Interior of the Times.
Earth."
On the probable condition of the Trans. of the
Interior of the Earth--Revised Cumberland
Edition of above Lecture. Assoc., &c.

1878 June 1 Discussion of the Observations of The Observatory
the Transit of Mercury on May 6. (No. 14).

1878 Abstract of Lecture delivered at The Observatory
Cockermouth on "The Interior of the (No. 14).
Earth."

1978 June 1 Report of the Astronomer Royal to
the Board of Visitors.

1878 July 1 Remarks on the measurement of the The Observatory
photographs taken in the Transit of (No. 15).
Venus Observations.

1878 July 13 On the Variable Star R. Scuti: The Observatory
distortion in the Photo-heliograph. (No. 16).

1878 Remarks on Mr Gill's Heliometric The Observatory
Observations of Mars. (No. 20).

1878 Dec. Note on a Determination of the Mass R. Astr. Soc.
of Mars, and reference to his