Journal of the British Astronomical Association. Vol.1 No.10

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  • 1BAA Journal Volume 1, Number 10 - November 1891
  • 16The Double Star Section.
  • 31Mineralogy of Meteorites. Vauqhan Cornish
  • 3Council
  • 6REPORT OF THE COUNCIL ON THE WORK of THE FIRST SESSION. OCTOBER 1890 TO OCTOBER 1891.
  • 6I. Progress of the Association.
  • 9II—The Observing Sections.
  • 13The Solar Section.
  • 13The Solar Spectroscopic Section.
  • 13The Lunar Section.
  • 14The Jupiter Section.
  • 14The Saturn Section.
  • 15The Cometary Section.
  • 15The Coloured Star Section.
  • 16The Variable Star Section.
  • 16The Stellar Spectroscopic Section.
  • 38OBSERVATIONS OF HYPERION. A. Hall.
  • 31Nature
  • 17The Meteoric Section.
  • 17A Few Notes on the Sun-spots of June 1891. BY MISS E. BROWN
  • 21Astronomical Progress.
  • 21BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. CARDIFF, 1891.
  • 27Astronomical Publications.
  • 27The Observatory
  • 27August. NOTES ON OBSERVATIONS OF METEORS. W. F. Denning
  • 27THE MEASURE OF THE 52ND PARALLEL IN EUROPE.
  • 28Selenographical Notes
  • 29Periodic comets
  • 30Knowledge
  • 30Lunar Terrestrial Volcanoes
  • 30On the Space Penetrating Power of Large Telescopes. A. C. Ranyard.
  • 31The Sun's Corona
  • 36ON THE PERIOD OF THE ROTATION OF THE SUN NEAR THE POLES, AS DERIVED FROM THE CORONAS OF 1878 AND 188g. Frank H. Bigelow.
  • 17Papers Communicated to the Association.
  • 35THE SYSTEM OF THE STARS. George E. Hale.
  • 32THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. Dr. Huggins.
  • 32JUPITER AND HIS MARKINGS. W. F. Denning
  • 33The " Sidereal Messenger."
  • 33INVESTIGATION OF THE ORBIT OF A BODY WHOSE MASS IS M, THAT OF THE SUN BEING THE UNIT, AND WHICH IS SUP­POSED TO BE APPROACHING THE SUN WITH A GREAT VELOCITY WHILE IT IS REPELLED BY THE SUN WITH A FORCE DIRECTLY AS THE MASSES AND INVERSELY AS THE SQUARE OF THEIR DISTANCES. Geo. A. Coakley
  • 33ADDRESS AT THE DEDICATION OF THE KENWOOD OBSERVATORY. C. A. Young.
  • 33THE KENWOOD PHYSICAL OBSERVATORY. Geo. E. Hale
  • 34The Motion of the Double Star β 612. S. W. Burnham.
  • 34The Camera for Celestial Photography. S. W. Burnham.
  • 35Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • 35THE SOLAR CORONA OF JANUARY 1889, FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHS. H. S. Pritchett.
  • 35LUNAR WORK FOR AMATEURS. Thomas Gwyn Elger, and A FEW HINTS TO BEGINNERS IN SOLAR OBSERVATION. Miss E. Brown.
  • 35THE SOLAR ECLIPSE OF JUNE 6, 1891. Orris E. Harmon
  • 35ON THE THERMOMETRY CHRONOMETER OF THE LICK OBSERVA­TORY. A. O. Leuschner
  • 32THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS OF JUNE 7, 1891. H. J. Johnston-Lavis
  • 38OBSERVATIONS OF COMPARISON STARS FOR COMET d 1889. J. R. Eastman and A. Hall, Junr.
  • 35NOTICE OF DR. DREYER'S BIOGRAPHY OF TYCHO BRAHE. Torvald Kohl.
  • 36VISIBILITY OF INTERFERENCE FRINGES IN THE FOCUS OF A TELESCOPE. Albert A. Michelson.
  • 36REPORT MADE TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE ASTRONOMICAL OB­SERVATORY OF TACUBAYA IN REGARD TO OBSERVATIONS OF THE ZODIACAL LIGHT.
  • 36NOTE ON DARK TRANSITS OF JUPITER'S SATELLITES. John Tebbutt
  • 36ERRATA IN WATSON'S THEORETICAL ASTRONOMY. G. C. Comstock.
  • 36OBSERVATIONS OF THE TRANSIT OF MERCURY, MAY 9 1891
  • 36NOTICES FROM THE LICK OBSERVATORY
  • 37The Astronomical Journal.
  • 37THE SECULAR PERTURBATIONS OF THE EARTH PRO­DUCED BY THE ACTION OF MARS. A. Hall, Junr
  • 37HRONOLOGY AND ECLIPSES. J. N. Stockwell
  • 37THE ACTION OF JUPITER UPON COMET d 1889. C. L. Poor
  • 37EPHEMERIS OF VARIABLES OF THE ALGOL-TYPE (continued in No. 246).
  • 38SUN-SPOT OBSERVATIONS MADE AT THE HAVERFORD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY. F. P. Leavenworth.
  • 38THE SAME, MADE PARTLY AT BRYN MAWR, PARTLY AT PHILADELPHIA. A. W. Quimby.
  • 30The observation of red stars
  • 1Contents
  • 41AN OLD ASTRONOMICAL STATUE. C. Flammarion.
  • 41CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY. Ch. André.
  • 38OBSERVATION OF WOLF'S COMET (1884 iii.). E. Frisby.
  • 39Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences
  • 39Note on the proposed observatory on Mont Blanc
  • 40REMARKS ON THE INFLUENCE OF ABBERATION ON THE OBSERVATION OF SOLAR PROMINENCES BY SPECTRUM ANALYSIS. M. Fizeau.
  • 40OBSERVATION OF THE MINOR PLANET DISCOVERED 1891, AUGUST 30, MADE AT TOULOUSE. E. Causerat.
  • 40ON THE DISTRIBUTION IN LATITUDE OF THE SOLAR PHENOMENA OBSERVED AT THE OBSERVATORY OF THE CÖLLEGIO ROMANO DURING THE FIRST HALF OF 1891. P. Tachini
  • 40L'Astronomie.
  • 40AN INUNDATION ON THE PLANET MARS.
  • 40THE IDEA OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN WORLDS. C. Flammarion
  • 41EXTRAORDINARY LUMINOUS PHENOMENA OBSERVED ON THE SUN. E. L. Trouvelot.
  • 41TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM. MAGNETIC ANOMALY IN THE PARIS BASIN. Th. Moureaux.
  • 41THE PROGRESS OF SPECTRUM ANALYSIS.
  • 41LMOST TOTAL APPARENT DISAPPEARANCE OF JUPITER'S SATEL­LITES. C. Flammarion.
  • 48THE ASTRONOMICAL CONGRESS AT MUNICH.
  • 49Astronomische Nachrichten
  • 41THE MEDIMAREMETRE. Ch. Lallemand.
  • 42SATURN. C. M. Gaudiber
  • 42THE RED SPOT OF JUPITER.
  • 42THE SEASONS ON THE PLANET MARS. M. Flammarion.
  • 43THE OBSERVATORY OF THE VATICAN. H. Tarry.
  • 43ELENOGRAPHICAL STUDIES. JULIUS CAESAR. C. M. Gaudibert
  • 44Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique
  • 44ON SOME NEW OBSERVATIONS or TJTE CANALS OF MARS AND THEIR DUPLICATION. F. Terby.
  • 45FACTS DEMONSTRATING THE PERMANENCE OF THE DARK SPOTS ON VENUS AND THE SLOWNESS OF THEIR MOVEMENT OF ROTATION. F. Terby.
  • 46ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE EQUATORIAL BANDS OF JUPITER. F. Terby.
  • 46ON THE FREQUENCY OF SHOOTING STARS DURING THE NIGHTS OF 9th AND 10THI AUGUST 1890. F. Terby.
  • 47Ciel de Terre
  • 48THE ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF RAIN. A. Lancaster.
  • 48THE PROPER MOTIONS OF THE SUN AND STARS. G. Bigourdan.
  • 48MICHEL-FLORENT VAN LANGREN, COSMOGRAPHER AND MATHEMATICIAN OF THE KING OF SPAIN. A. Wauters.
  • 38THE AUGUST PERSEIDS, 1891. E. F. Sawyer.
  • 38RE-DISCOVERY AND OBSERVATIONS OF ENCKE'S PERIODIC COMET. THE NEBULA, N.G.C. 1 514. E. E. Barnard.
  • 57DISCOVERY OF COMET 1891e (BARNARD)
  • 38THE CAUSES OF THE VARIATIONS OF THE TERRESTRIAL MAGNETIC NEEDLE, AND THE UNEXPLAINED MOTION OF THE PERI­HELION OF MERCURY. F. H. Bigelow.
  • 53Memoria della Soc. degli Spett. Italiani
  • 53Sitzungs. der Κ. Preussischen Akad. der Wissen, zu Berlin
  • 54Correspondence.
  • 54Meteor Radiants.
  • 55Transit of Mercury 10 May 1891
  • 55Total Eclipse of the Moon 24 May 1891
  • 56Slade's Micrometer
  • 56REPORTS OF THE SECTIONS
  • 56Saturn section
  • 56Notes.
  • 56ECLIPSE OF MOON.
  • 57NEW MINOR PLANETS
  • 57REDISCOVERY OF COMET TEMPLE - SWIFT (1869 III)
  • 52Hummel und Erde
  • 57GRESHAM LECTURES.—The Rev. E. Ledger
  • 57RECENT DEATHS
  • 58Ephemerides for Comets Wolf and Temple-Swift
  • 58Ephemeris for Comet 1890 II.—Herr F. Bidschof
  • 58Ephemeris for Encke's Comet.—Dr. Backlund
  • 59NEW BOOKS AND MEMOIRS
  • 59Pictorial Astronomy for General Readers
  • 59Researches on the System of Comets, 1843 I., 1880 I., and 1882 II. Part II. The Great September Comet, 1882 II. By Dr. H. Kreutz.
  • 60On the Adjustment and Testing of Telescopic Objectives. T. Cooke and Sons
  • 61The Photochronograph and its application to Star Transits. Professors G.A. Fargis, S.J., and John G. Hagen, S.J., George town College Observatory.
  • 62The Total Eclipse of the Sun, January 1, 1889. Λ Report of the observations made by the Washington University Eclipse Party, at Norman, California.
  • 63Revenue account
  • 65Notices of the Association.
  • 65Saturn Section.
  • 65Candidates for Election as Members of the Association
  • 65Errata in No. 8.
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