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Page 172 - Attentively viewing it with higher powers, magnifying respectively 760, 1060, and 1480 times, and under the most favourable circumstances which have presented themselves, I have discovered within the nebula a brilliant elliptic ring, extremely well defined, and apparently having no connexion with the surrounding nebula, which indeed has the appearance of a gaseous or gauze-like envelope, scarcely interfering with the sharpness of the ring, and only diminishing somewhat its brightness.
Page 189 - Libra. The earliest record we possess of an occurrence of this kind is of Chinese origin. It is stated that a conjunction of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury, ] in the constellation Shi, was assumed as an epoch by the Emperor Chuenhio, and it has been found by MM.
Page 141 - ... forming a square and three in a right line. They must have been endowed with a better eyesight than ours, and the sky must have been very clear. Since they say it is a she-bear, let it be one ; they were very lucky in being able to distinguish it.
Page 102 - Manchester, was balloted for and duly elected a Fellow of the Society. The following Papers was read : — "ACCOUNT OF SOME EXPERIMENTS MADE TO INVESTIGATE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE PRESSURE AND VELOCITY OF THE WlND.
Page 172 - NPD 101° 50' (186?), it has revealed so marvellous a conformation of this object that I cannot forbear to send you a drawing of it, with some description of its appearance. With comparatively low powers, eg 231 and 285, it appears at first sight as a vividly light-blue elliptic nebula, with a slight prolongation of the nebula, or a very faint star, at or near the ends of the transverse axis.
Page 107 - Here lie the bones of Ho and Hi, Whose fate though sad was risible, Being hanged because they could not spy The eclipse which was invisible.
Page 201 - LAW of STORMS, considered in connection with the Ordinary Movements of the Atmosphere. Translated by RH SCOTT, MATCD Svo.
Page 82 - Treutler were balloted for and duly elected Fellows of the Society. The following papers were read : — 1. " Thermometric Observations on Board the Cunard EMSS Algeria,
Page 187 - And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened to the voice of a man. For the Lord fought for Israel.
Page 3 - PREFACE. IN the following pages an attempt has been made to give a connected history of the relations which have prevailed between the nations of the West and the Empires of China, Japan, Annam, and Siam.