Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy - Part 37
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1876 Jan. 27 Note on a point in the life of Sir William Athenaeum.

Herschel.

1876 Mar. 15 Evidence given before the Government Committee on the Meteorological Committee.

1876 May 20 On Toasting at Public Dinners. Public Opinion.

1876 June 3 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors,

1876 Aug. 7 On a Speech attributed to Nelson. Athenaeum.

1876 Dec. Spectroscopic Results for the Rotation of R. Astr. Soc.

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-gla.s.ses. (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 Compa.s.s 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. c.u.mberland condition of the Interior of the Times.

Earth."

On the probable condition of the Trans. of the Interior of the Earth--Revised c.u.mberland Edition of above Lecture. a.s.soc., &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 c.o.c.kermouth 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 Ma.s.s R. Astr. Soc.

of Mars, and reference to his own (Month. Not.) determination in 1828. Also Note on the Conjunction of Mars and Saturn, 1879, June 30.

1879 Jan. 1 On the remarkable conjunction of The Observatory the Planets Mars and Saturn which (No. 21).

will occur on 1879, June 30.

1879 Feb. 15 On the names "Cabul" and "Malek." Athenaeum

1879 Feb. 25 On f.a.ggot Votes in Cornwall in 1828. Athenaeum

1879 Mar. 13 Letter on the Examination Papers for the Smith's Prizes.

1879 Apr. 7 Drafts of Resolutions proposed concerning Sadler's Notes on the late Admiral Smyth's "Cycle of Celestial Objects."

1879 June 1 Letter to Le Verrier, dated 1875, The Observatory Feb. 5, in support of the Method (No. 26).

of Least Squares.

1879 June 1 Remarks in debate on Sadler's The Observatory "Notes" above-mentioned. (No. 26).

1879 June 7 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors.