Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy Part 33

Astronomy of the Ancients" by the Rt Hon. Sir G. Cornewall Lewis.

1862 Apr. 24 Notes for the Committee on Weights and Measures, 1862.

1862 May 15 On the Magnetic Properties of Hot-Rolled Phil. Trans.

and Cold-Rolled Malleable Iron.

1862 June 7 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors.

1862 June 24 Evidence given before the Select Committee on Weights and Measures.

1862 Oct. 4 Biography of G.B. Airy (probably in part London Review.

based upon data supplied by himself).

1862 Oct. 11 Abstract of Paper "On the Strains in the Athenaeum.

Interior of Beams and Tubular Bridges."

1862 Oct. 11 Translation of a Letter from Prof. Lament Phil. Mag.

on Dalton's Theory of Vapour, &c.

1862 Nov. 6 On the Strains in the Interior of Beams. Phil. Trans.

1862 Nov. Correspondence with Sabine concerning his attack on the Greenwich Magnetic Observations. (Confidentially communicated to the Board of Visitors.)

1862 Nov. 21 Evidence given before the Public Schools Commission.

1862 Nov. Abstract of M. Auwers's Paper on the R. Astr. Soc.

proper motion of Procyon, and Note on (Month. Not.) same.

1862 Dec. Abstract of Mr Safford's Paper on the R. Astr. Soc.

Proper Motion of Sirius. Also on the (Month. Not.) Forms of Lenses proper for the Negative Eye-pieces of Telescopes. Also on the measurements of the Earth, and the dimensions of the Solar System. Also on Fringes of Light in Solar Eclipses.

1863 Jan. Address to the Board of Visitors on a further attack by Sabine on the Greenwich Magnetic Observations (confidential).

1863 Jan. 9 On the Observations of Saturn made at R. Astr. Soc.

Pulkowa and Greenwich. (Month. Not.)

1863 Feb. 24 Report to the Board of Trade on the Proposed Lines of Railway through Greenwich Park.

1863 Mar. 2 Determination of the Longitude of Valencia in Ireland by Galvanic Signals in the summer of 1862 (App. III. to the Gr.

Astr. Obsns. 1862).

1863 Mar. 13 On the Movement of the Solar System in R. Astr. Soc.

s.p.a.ce, deduced from the Proper Motions (Memoirs.) of 1167 Stars. By Edwin Dunkin (for G.B.A.).

1863 Mar. 13 On the Visibility of Stars in the Pleiades R. Astr. Soc.

to the unarmed eye. (Month. Not.)

1863 Mar. 21 On Marriage Odes. Athenaeum.

1863 Apr. 9 Further Report as to the Probable Effects of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway on the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park.

1863 Apr. 10 Determination of the Sun's Parallax from R. Astr. Soc.

observations of Mars during the (Month. Not.) Opposition of 1862. By E.J. Stone (for G.B.A.). Also Remarks on Struve's account of a Local deviation in the direction of Gravity, near Moscow. Also an Account of an apparatus for the observation of the spectra of stars, and results obtained.

1863 Apr. 23 On the Diurnal Inequalities of Phil. Trans.

Terrestrial Magnetism, as deduced from observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1841 to 1857.

1863 May 8 On the Discordance between the Results R. Astr. Soc.

for Zenith-Distances obtained by Direct (Memoirs.) Observation, and those obtained by Observation by Reflection from the Surface of Quicksilver.

1863 June 6 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors.

1863 July 2 On the Amount of Light given by the R. Astr. Soc.

Moon at the greatest stage in the (Month. Not.) Excentrically-total Eclipse, 1863, June 1.

1863 Aug. Plan of the Buildings and Grounds of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, with Explanation and History.

1863 Sept. 5 On the origin of the apparent luminous R. Astr. Soc.

band which, in partial eclipses of the (Month. Not.) Sun, has been seen to surround the visible portion of the Moon's limb.

1863 Sept. 5 On the Invasions of Britain by Julius Athenaeum.

1863 Oct. 3 Caesar.

1863 Oct. 17 The Earthquake as observed from Greenwich. Athenaeum.

1863 Nov. On the Numerical Expression of the Phil. Mag.

Destructive Energy in the Explosions of Steam-Boilers, &c.

1863 Nov. 13 Convention arranged between M. Le Verrier R. Astr. Soc.

and the Astronomer Royal for meridional (Month. Not.) observations of the small Planets, &c.

1863 Nov. 13 Translation of Hansen's Paper R. Astr. Soc.

"Calculation of the Sun's Parallax (Month. Not.) from the Lunar Theory," with Notes by G.B.A.

1863 Dec. 17 First a.n.a.lysis of 177 Magnetic Storms, Phil. Trans.

registered by the Magnetic Instruments in the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1841 to 1857.

1864 Jan. 8 Pontecoulant's Paper "Sur le Coefficiant R. Astr. Soc.

de l'equation Parallactique deduit de la (Month. Not.) Theorie," with Notes by G.B.A.

1864 Jan. 26 Remarks on Redman's Paper on the East Inst. C. E.

Coast (Chesil Bank, &c.). (Minutes.)

1864 Mar. 10 Note on a Pa.s.sage in Capt. R. Astr. Soc.

Jacob's "Measures of Jupiter," &c. (Month. Not.)

1864 Mar. 11 Notes for the Committee on Weights and Ho. of Comm.

Measures, 1862. (Parly. Paper.)