CONTENTS. Page ... ... 337 On the Determination of Personal Equation by Observations of the Note in reference to the preceding Communication, by Capt. W. S. Jacob 339 Note from the Astronomer Royal, on the account of the Occultation of ... List of Star-Magnitudes which remain for insertion in Baily's Edition ... Note from Captain W. S. Jacob to the Editor ... ... Corrections of the Elements of the Moon's Orbit deduced from the Astronomical, Magnetical, and Meteorological Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the Year 1857, under the INDEX. ADAMS, J. C., appointed Lowndean Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge 114 Airy, G. B., note on the variable star No. 83 of the Greenwich Catalogue of 1576 Stars Council report of his operations at the Royal Observatory during the past year on the movement of the solar system in space. 207 54 132 173 186 on the projection of stars on the moon's disk in occultations 208 340 Corrections of the Elements of the Lunar Orbit, from obser- 347 Alexandra, observations of. II Balfour, Capt., sextant observations of Comet V., 1858. 66 Bate, Capt. W. T., biographical notice of... 115 Bellona, observations of 238, 278 Berlin Academy, notice of the conclusion of the series of Star-Charts published by the Birt, W. R., note on a group of solar spots. on the successive illuminations of the lunar crater Geminus 280 152 182 Cambridge Observatory, accounts of operations at the, during the past Cambridge University, donation to the, by the representatives of the late Carrington, R. C., on the distribution of the solar spots on certain phenomena in the motions of solar spots 81 141 Cayley, Arthur, on the disturbing function in the lunar theory -, report of the Council on his operations at the Cambridge Clarke, Capt., note on the figure of the earth Page 38 16 133 265 notice of his labours in connexion with the "Account of V., 1858, observations of... 324 12, 21-29, 54, 88, 185, 305 -, physical observations of Comet I., 1859, discovery of . elements of 16 86 228 296 Comets, Council report respecting the discovery of, during the past year 155 Dawes, Rev. W. R., observations of Comet V., 1858 .. note on Saturn's ring occultation of Saturn, observed by De La Rue, Warren, drawing of Comet V., 1858, by -, stereoscopic photographs of the moon 239 88 184 241 28 40 notice of his labours in celestial photography.. 138, 353 Dunkin, R., occultation of Saturn observed by ... Eclipse of the sun, total, Sept. 7, 1858, observed in Brazil by Major Lang. Edmondson, N. M'N., observations of Comet V. by Egeria, observations of Ellery, R. L. G., observations of Comet V., 1858 Encke, Prof., notices of his researches on the theory of the comet which 114 I ib. 45 ib. Thomas Slater, Esq. ib. William Radcliff Birt, Esq. 77 Francis Thos. Selby, Esq. 105 Foucault, Leon, description of an improvement in the making of large reflecting telescopes description of processes for finding out the configuration Glaisher, James, occultation of Saturn observed by Grove, W. R., note on Comet V., 1858.. occultation of Saturn observed by. 186 284 239 93 27 28 243 Haile, J. C., observations of Comet V., 1858 25 Harmonia, observations of Hartnup, John, observations of Comet V., 1858 account of his labours at the Liverpool Observatory Hencke, M., rectification of magnitudes in Baily's edition of Lalande's Histoire Céleste Herschel, Sir J. F. W., note from... Hind, J. R., note on the nomenclature of the minor planets Hodgson, R., on the visibility of Comet V., 1858 173, 206 54 136 340 39 ib. 86 note on the triplicity of Scorpii.. correction of a statement relative to Airy's re- 68 Lang, Major, observation of the solar eclipse, Sept. 7, 1858 Lassell, William, observation of Comet V., 1858. 9, 50, 85 31 21, 78 138 243 120 201 10 151 Leucothea, observations of.. Liais, M., sur les réfractions anormales dans les éclipses de soleil et la year .... Lubbock, Sir John, on the development of the disturbing function in Lunar theory, on the development of the disturbing function in the -- Lunars, on a new method of clearing... Lynn, Mr., occultation of Saturn observed by. Page 85 318 136 180 ib. 38 287 239 account of the results of the trigonometrical survey in Madras Observatory, account of operations at the Main, Rev. R., on the proper motions of the stars of the Greenwich Catalogue of 1576 stars.. address on presenting the Gold Medal of the Society to remarks on the physical peculiarities of comets 135 61 161 224 238 on the present state of the controversy respecting the Melpomene, observations of 306 Memoirs, notice of the publication of vol. xxvii. of the Minor planets, magnitudes of the... list of institutions and individuals entitled by the proposal by the Council for incorporating the Monthly Müller, Dr., on the silvering of glass specula Murray, Sir W. K., occultation of Saturn, observed by.. Occultations of stars by the moon, phenomena observed during of Saturn, May 8, 1859, observations of.... 238–244, 265, 279 Owen, Vice-Admiral, W. F., biographical notice of Peacock, George, Dean of Ely, biographical notice of.. 125 Peters, Dr. C. H. F., on the drift in latitude of the solar spots. 173 93, 327 Planets, minor, observations of 8-12, 49-50, 84-85, 172-173, 205, 206, 237-238, 244-250, 277-278, 306 |