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Planets, new,

Council report respecting the discovery of, during the past
year

Pogson, Norman, note on a new variable star

-, ephemeris of the magnitudes of forty-eight of the
minor planets by..
ephemeris of variable stars

Pollock, Mr., note on the occultation of Saturn, May 8, 1859
Pomona, observations of..

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Pontécoulant, De G., observations on the new terms introduced by
Mr. Adams into the expression for the coefficient
of the secular equation by the moon

Powell, E. B., physical phenomena of Comet V., 1858

Proserpine, observations of....

Ragoonatha Charey, C., determination of the value of personal equation
by observations of the projections of the sun's

image

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Raper, Lieut. R.N., biographical notice of
Recent Publications, notices of.... 40-43, 69–75, 95–103, 193–199, 226–228
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Riddle, John, on the value of neglected terms in the ordinary expression

for the "equation of equal altitudes"

note on Lieut. Raper's method for clearing the lunar

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Royal Observatory, account of operations at the, during the past year.. 132

Saturn and his rings, observations of....

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Secchi, Professor, on the recent occultation of Saturn

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Selby, F., observations of Comet V., 1858

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Shortrede, Lieut.-Col., on a new method of clearing lunars

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Simms, William, Jun., occultation of Saturn observed by
Slatter, J., observations of Comet V., 1858....

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Smyth, Admiral, note on the relative brightness of the great comets of

1811 and 1858..

Society, receipts and expenditure of the R.A., for 1858-59

assets and present property of the

stock of volumes of the Memoirs..

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list of officers and Council of the, for the ensuing year.

Solar spots, on the distribution of the

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Steinheil, Dr., on the advantages to be derived from the use of silver

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Tennant, Capt., on a method of determining the latitude by transits
on the deduction of the latitude from transits over the

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prime vertical

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note on No. 83 of the Greenwich Catalogue of 1576 stars

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Victoria, observations of..

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Wackerbarth, on the cause of irregularity in the rate of a chronometer.. 222
Waterston, J. J., thoughts on the formation of the tail of a comet

Webb, Rev. T. W., observations of Comet V., 1858

notice of traces of eruptive action in the moon
note on the structure of the tails of comets..
Whitbread, S. C., occultation of Saturn, observed by..
Wichmann, Dr., death of
Williams, John, observation of a solar spot by..

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London:-Printed by G. BARCLAY, Castle St. Leicester Sq. and Published at the
Apartmaets of the Society, October 9, 1858.

LIST OF PRESENTS

RECEIVED DURING THE SESSION OF 1858-59,

AND OF

BOOKS PURCHASED WITH THE TURNOR FUND

DURING THE SAME PERIOD,

FORMING

APPENDIX X.

To the Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Académie des Sciences de l'Institut Imp. de France, Comptes L'Académie Rendus Hebdomadaires, tome xlvii.-xlviii, Nos. 1 to 11,

4to.

Paris, 1858

London, 1858

Actuaries, Institute of, List of Members, 1858-9, 8vo.

Admiralty, Catalogue of Books in the Admiralty Library, 8vo.

London, 1858

Airy, G. B., Account of the Construction of the new National
Standard of Length and of its principal Copies, 4to.

London, 1858

Imp. des
Sciences.

The Institute of Actuaries.

The Lords Commissioners of the Ad

miralty. The Author.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Proceedings, vol. iii., The American Nos. 32 to 52; vol. iv., Nos. 1 to 8, 8vo.

Boston, 1857

Academy.

Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for Lt. Col. Gra-
Boston, 1847 ham.

the year 1848, 12mo.

Association for the Advancement of Science, Pro- The Observa

ceedings, 8th to 11th Meetings, 8vo.

tory at George

Town.

Cambridge, U. S. 1855-8

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The Franklin American Manufactures, Report of the 26th Exhibition of,

Institute.

The American
Philosophical
Society.
The Royal

Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam.

of London.

8vo.

Philadelphia, 1858 Philosophical Society, Proceedings, vol. vi., Nos. 57, Philadelphia, 1859

58, 8vo.

Amsterdam, Royal Academy of Sciences, Verhandelingen der koninklijke Akademie van Wettenschappen, vols. i. to vi., Amsterdam, 1854-58

4to.

vii., 8vo.

Verslagen en Mededeelingen der ditto, vols. i. to
Amsterdam, 1853-7
Catalogus van de Boekerij der ditto, 8vo.

Council, 8vo.

Amsterdam, 1857

The Art Union Art Union of London, Twenty-second Annual Report of the London, 1858 Lieut. Ashe. Ashe, Lieut., Report for the year 1857, addressed to Sir W. E. Logan, Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, 8vo.

Dr. Peters.

S. M. Drach,
Esq.

The Berlin
Royal
Academy.

The Society of Physics, Berlin.

The Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin.

Quebec, 1858

Astronomische Nachrichten, Nos. 1152 to 1200, 4to.

Altona, 1858-59 (Berkeley, Bishop), The Theory of Vision or Visual Language, shewing the immediate Presence and Providence of a Deity, vindicated and explained, by the Author of “Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher," 8vo. London, 1733

Berlin, Abhandlungen der königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1857, 4to.

Berlin, 1858

Berlin, 1858

Monatsbericht der ditto, 1857, 8vo.
Akademische Sternkarten Zone O uhr. Zone ix uhr.
Berlin, 1858

Society of Physics, Die Fortschritte der Physic im Jahre 1855, dargestellt von der Physikalischen Gesellschaft, 11th year, 2 parts, 8vo.. Berlin, 1858

Uebersicht der bei dem Meteorologischen Institute zu Berlin gesammelten Ergebnisse der Wetterbeobachtungen auf den Stationen des Preussischen Staats und benachbarter für der Zweck verbundener Staaten für die einzelnen Monate des Jahres, 1855. Berlin

The Royal

Berlin, Uebersicht der Witterung im Nördlichen Deutschland nach den Beobachtungen des Meteorologischen Instituts Academy of zu Berlin, 1856-57-58.

Bond, G. B., An Account of Donati's Comet of 1858,

Berlin

4to. Cambridge, U. S. 1858

London, 1858

Sciences.

The Author.

Association.

British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report of The British the Twenty-seventh Meeting, 8vo. Burgess, J., on Hypsometrical Measurements by means of the The Author. Barometer and the Boiling-point Thermometer, with Tables for Facilitating the Computation of Heights both by Natural Numbers and by Logarithms, 8vo. Calcutta, 1859

Cambridge, Transactions of the Philosophical Society, vol. x., The Cambridge Philosophical Cambridge, 1858 Society.

part 1, 4to.

Reports of the Observatory Syndicate, 4to.
Cambridge, 1859

Cherbourg, Mémoires de la Société Impériale de, tome v.,

Paris, 1859

8vo. Christiania, Beschreibung und Lage der Universitäts Sternwarte in Christiania von C. Hansteen und Carl Fearnley, 8vo.

Christiania, 1849

Prof. Challis.

The Imperial
Society of
Cherbourg.
The Royal
University at
Christiania.

Comets, Past, Present, and to Come, with Notices of their Mrs. Hannah

Bodies, Heads, and Tails, and everything
them, by one who knows them, 8vo.

Cosmos, vols. xii., xiii., xiv., xv., No. 1, 8vo.

remarkable about
London, 1858

Jackson.

M. L'Abbé

Paris, 1858

Moigno.

Davies, Charles, Elements of Algebra, on the Basis of M. Bour- The Observadon, embracing Sturm's and Horner's Theorems, and Prac- tory at George tical Examples, 8vo.

New York, 1855

The Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, from the works of A. M. Legendre, revised and adapted to the Course of Mathematical Instruction in the United States, 8vo.

New York, 1854

Town.

De Morgan, Augustus, A Proof of the Existence of a Root in The Author. every Algebraic Equation, with an Examination of Cauchy's Theorem on Imaginary Roots, and Remarks on the Proofs of the Existence of Roots given by Argand and by Mourey. Cambridge, 1858

8vo.

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