Planets, new, Council report respecting the discovery of, during the past Pogson, Norman, note on a new variable star -, ephemeris of the magnitudes of forty-eight of the Pollock, Mr., note on the occultation of Saturn, May 8, 1859 Page 154 3 80 202 322 · 9, 50 Pontécoulant, De G., observations on the new terms introduced by Powell, E. B., physical phenomena of Comet V., 1858 Proserpine, observations of.... Ragoonatha Charey, C., determination of the value of personal equation image ... 307 62 8 337 128 Raper, Lieut. R.N., biographical notice of Riddle, John, on the value of neglected terms in the ordinary expression for the "equation of equal altitudes" note on Lieut. 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