Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 40

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Priestley and Weale, 1880
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Page 153 - Equation" (Phil. May., 1842), and "On the Use of the Barometric Thermometer for the Determination of Relative Heights" (Phil. Trans., 1846). His chief work was in connection with the Royal Military Academy, where he ably seconded the efforts of his father to raise the character of the mathematical studies at that institution. He died at Norwood on February 28, 1879. He was elected a Fellow of the Society on January 13, 1854.
Page 208 - ... horizontal telescope pointing to the west, and having two objectives. By means of two prisms mounted in front of the telescope, the pole star is reflected into one object-glass, and the star to be measured into the other. The cones of light are made to coincide by a double-image prism, the extra images being cut off by an eye-stop. The star to be measured is thus seen in the same field with the pole star, with the same aperture and magnifying power.
Page 161 - Peel came into power. He was informed that his further assistance would be dispensed with. Without reward of any kind he was dismissed from the public service. The country did not view this treatment with calmness. A national testimonal was raised, and at a public dinner he was presented with a cheque for 13,000/. He then became first a director and then chairman of the London and Brighton Railway. Under his chairmanship, and chiefly on his recommendation, the first excursion train and the first...
Page 160 - He had assisted in founding the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. He had published a plan for the gradual extinction of pauperism and for the diminution of crime.
Page 34 - I began the calculation in the hope of getting a rough idea only of the amount of polarisation which we might expect. But it appeared that even such observations as we can make during the short time available during a total solar eclipse may yield most important information as to the constitution of the solar corona. I shall...
Page 211 - These facts, together with others which have been stated, indicate the existence of a small cluster, within which our system is eccentrically situated, but which is itself not far from the middle plane of the Galaxy. This cluster appears to be of a flattened shape, somewhat bifid, and to consist of somewhat more than 400 stars of magnitudes from the first to the seventh, their average magnitude being about 3-6 or yj.
Page 520 - This year dire forewarnings came over the land of the Northumbrians and miserably terrified the people ; there were excessive whirlwinds, and lightnings; and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air.
Page 214 - ... deduces from them i7"'55 as the value of the diameter of Venus seen by reflected sunlight at a distance equal to the mean distance of the Earth from the Sun. This value is about o'''6 greater than that derived from the measurements of the black disk of Venus made during the last transit by Auwers and by Col.
Page 347 - ... higher elevation of the sun ; thus, for retarded ingress, Sir George Airy had at first proposed to refer principally to the coasts of the Canadian Dominion and the United States of North America, where the sun's elevation is from 15° to 18° ; he now proposes to substitute for this the whole chain of West India Islands, from the eastern extremity of Cuba to Barbadoes, or stations on the neighbouring continent of Central America. Bermuda is also included as a favourable point for observation....
Page 161 - If it contained the smallest enclosure — a receipt, for instance — it was charged double, 2>. 3d. The upper classes, through the right of franking which was enjoyed by every member of Parliament, had to a great extent their letters carried free of charge. The traders, by the help of illicit means of conveyance, were often able to evade the heavy tax. The poor man alone was helpless. Under such a system as this the postal revenue had remained absolutely stationary for twenty years. It was about...

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