Journal of the British Astronomical Association. Vol.14 No.6

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  • -1BAA Journal - Vol.14 No.6 - April 1904
  • 24In Foucault's " Pendulum experiment " how is the wire to which the bob is attached suspended to the roof of the building so as to avoid torsion caused by the rotatory movement which the building partakes of along with the Earth ?
  • 1COUNCIL
  • 3REPORT OF THE MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION HELD ON MARCH 30, 1904
  • 13Papers communicated to the Association.
  • 13Prof. Stockwell and the Nebular Hypothesis. By W. T. LYNN
  • 15The Oldest Astronomy. III. By E. W. MAUNDER and A. S. D. MAUNDER
  • 20Correspondence
  • 20The South Temperate Spot on Jupiter.
  • 20Solar Prominences and Thorp's Gratings.
  • 22The Zodiacal Light.
  • 22The Sun's Motion.
  • 23The Companion of Algol.
  • 29THE WEST OK SCOTLAND BRANCH
  • -1Contents.
  • 24Why do planets twinkle so much less than stars do ; and why do the same causes, which produce twinkling in some planets when near the horizon, not also produce twinkling in the moon when it is near the horizon ?
  • 25New Books and Memoirs
  • 25The Cartouches of Mars. By Percival Lowell
  • 25Lowell Observatory Bulletins : No. 8, The Thoth and the Amenthes.
  • 25Radial Velocities of Twenty Stars, having Spectra of the Orion Type. By Edwin B. Frost and Walter S. Adams
  • 25The Spectra of Stars of Secchi's Fourth Type. By George E. Hale, Ferdinand Ellerman, and J. A. Parkhurst.
  • 26Annales de l'Observatoire astronomique de Tokyo. Tomes II., III.
  • 26Measures of Double Stars with the 40-inch refractor of the Yerkes Observatory. By S. W. Burnham.
  • 27Notes.
  • 27COMET NOTES
  • 28ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
  • 24Queries
  • 29Astronomical Publications
  • 33CATALOGUE OF NEW DOUBLE STARS.
  • 33STELLAR . PARALLAX AND ITS POSSIBLE ERRORS IN SOME CASES.—Prof. Schäberle,
  • 30SUN-SPOTS AND THEIR CONNECTION WITH TERRESTRIAL MAGNETIC AND ELECTRIC DISTURBANCES. A. Ricco
  • 31CHANGES ON THE MOON. I.—THE BRENNER DISTRICT.— Leo Brenner
  • 31Is THERE SNOW ON THE MOON ?—E. W. Maunder
  • 31MARS.—The Rev. T. E. R. Phillips
  • 31THE CANALS OF MARS.— W. F. Denning
  • 32OBSERVATIONS OF THE PLANET JUPITER. W. F. Denning.
  • 32THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF METEORITES
  • 32SUPPOSED ABSORPTION OF STELLAR LIGHT BY A COMET
  • 32THEORY OF COMETS
  • 33THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS OF LAPLACE.—A. Hall
  • 33A CATALOGUE OF 829 SOUTH POLAR STARS.
  • 29SOLAR PROMINENCES AND THE ELEVEN-YEAR CYCLE. A. Ricco
  • 29SUN-SPOT VARIATION IN LATITUDE 1861-1902. W. J. S. Lockyer
  • 33THE MISSING STAR, DM. + 19˚2773.—F. Küstner
  • 34VARIABLE STARS IN ORION
  • 34NEW VARIABLES.—9.1904 Orionis. Dr. W. Lutlier
  • 34JAPANESE METHODS OF RECKONING TIME
  • 34ESCAPE OF GASES FROM ATMOSPHERES. S. R. Cook
  • 35AN ATLAS OF SOLAR PHOTOGRAPHS has been issued by M. Janssen
  • 35Notices of the Association
  • 35Books for Sale.
  • 36Recent Additions to the Library.
  • 37New Members of the Association. Elected 30th March 1904.
  • 38Candidates for Election as Members of the Association. 27th April 1904.
  • 38Comet a 1904.
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