OF THE

OF

CARACO LIBRARY

ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY,

CONTAINING

PAPERS, ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS, AND

REPORTS OF THE PROCEEDINGS

OF THE SOCIETY

FROM NOVEMBER 1892 TO NOVEMBER 1893.

VOL. LIII.

LONDON:

ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

BURLINGTON HOUSE, W.

1893.

The Rev. James Barnes Brearley, M.A., F.R.G.S., St. James's
Church, Oldham, Lancashire;

Herbert Hancock, M.A., F.R. Met. Soc., Bancroft's School,
Woodford, Essex;

Thomas Torrens Knowles, M.A., Royal Grammar School,
Lancaster;

Alfred Thomas Odell-Sorrell, St. Mary's Grove, Chiswick, W.;
Edward Stroud, Prisca Coborn Foundation School, Tredegar
Square, E.;

John Tatlock, jun., M.A., New York, U.S.A.,

were balloted for and duly elected Fellows of the Society.

Professor W. L. Elkin, Yale College, New Haven, Conn.,
U.S.A.;

Professor J. C. Kapteyn, Observatory, Groningen, Holland;
Professor Hugo Seeliger, Observatory, Munich, Bavaria ;
Dr. Hermann Struve, Observatory, Pulkowa, Russia,
were balloted for and duly elected Associates of the Society.

The following candidates were proposed for election as Fellows of the Society, the names of the proposers from personal knowledge being appended :

Joseph Ibbitson Berry, 20, Alwyne Road, Canonbury, N,
(proposed by W. S. B. Woolhouse);

Martin Brendel, Ph.D., Privat-docent of the University,
Greifswald, Germany (proposed by H. H. Turner);
Ernest Gould Dixon, Teacher and Graduate of the College of
Preceptors, 78, Alderney Street, S. W. (proposed by John
Newton);

Harold Dennis Taylor, Optical Manager to Messrs. T. Cooke
and Sons, 20, Bootham Terrace, York (proposed by
Albert Taylor).

Two hundred and ten presents were announced as having been received since the last meeting, including, amongst others,

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