Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy by George Biddell Airy (e ink epub reader .TXT) 📖

Ho. of Commons.
of the Exchequer Office of Weights and (Parly. Paper.)
Measures, as regards the means for
preventing Fraud in the Sale of Gas to
the Public; and on the Amendments which
may be required to the existing Legislation
on that subject.

1860 Mar. 9 Address on the approaching Solar Eclipse R. Astr. Soc.
of July 18, 1860, &c. (Month. Not.)

1860 May 10 Correspondence between the Lords Ho. of Commons.
Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, (Parly. Paper.)
&c., and the Astronomer Royal, relating
to Gas Measurement, and the Sale of
Gas Act.

1860 June 2 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
Board of Visitors. And Address to the
Members of the Board in reference to
Struve's Geodetic suggestions.

1860 June 7 Correspondence regarding the Grant of
_L1000_ to Prof. Hansen for his Lunar
Tables.

1860 Sept. 13 Remarks on a Paper entitled "On the
Polar Distances of the Greenwich Transit
Circle, by A. Marth." Addressed to
the Members of the Board of Visitors.

1860 Sept. 22 On Change of Climate, in answer to Athenaeum.
certain speculations by Sir Henry James.

1860 Oct. 20 Circular relating to the distribution of
Greenwich Observations and other
publications of the Royal Observatory.

1860 Nov. 9 Account of Observations of the Total R. Astr. Soc.
Solar Eclipse of 1860, July 18, made (Month. Not.)
at Herena, near Miranda de Ebro; &c. &c.

1860 Nov. 17 On Change of Climate: further discussion. Athenaeum.

1860 Letters on Lighthouses, to the Commission
on Lighthouses.

1860 Dec. 14 Note on the translation of a passage in a R. Astr. Soc.
letter of Hansen's relating to (Month. Not.)
coefficients.

1861 Feb. 9 On the Temperature-correction of Syphon Athenaeum.
Barometers.

1861 March Results of Observations of the Solar R. Astr. Soc.
Eclipse of 1860 July 18 made at the Royal (Month. Not.)
Observatory, Greenwich, for determination
of the Errors of the Tabular Elements of
the Eclipse. Also Suggestion of a new
Astronomical Instrument, for which the
name "Orbit-Sweeper" is proposed. Also
Theory of the Regulation of a Clock by
Galvanic Currents acting on the Pendulum.

1861 June 1 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
Board of Visitors.

1861 June 5 On a supposed Failure of the Calculus of Phil. Mag.
Variations.

1861 July Report of a Committee of the R. Soc. on R. Soc.(Proc.)
the advisability of re-measuring the
Indian Arc of Meridian.

1861 Sept. 21 Lecture at Manchester on the Great Solar Athenaeum.
Eclipse of July 18, 1860.

1861 Sept. 21 The same Lecture. London Review.

1861 Oct. Examination Paper for the Sheepshanks
Exhibition.

1861 Nov. 1 Translation of Dr Lamont's Paper "On the Phil. Mag.
most Advantageous Form of Magnets."

1861 Nov. 8 Note on a Letter received from Hansen on R. Astr. Soc.
the Lunar Theory. Also Discussion of (Month. Not.)
a Result deduced by Mr D'Abbadie from
Observations of the Total Solar Eclipse
of 1860, July 18.

1861 Nov. 16 Instructions for observing the Total Eclipse
of the Sun on December 31.

1861 Dec. On a Projection by Balance of Errors for Phil. Mag.
Maps.

1861 Dec. 28 On the Circularity of the Sun's Disk. R. Astr. Soc.
Also Table of Comparative Number of (Month. Not.)
Observations of Small Planets.

1862 Jan. On the Direction of the Joints in the Phil. Mag.
Faces of Oblique Arches.

1862 Mar. 15 Review of "An Historical Survey of the Athenaeum.
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