1855 Jan. 1 Lecture at S. Shields on the Pendulum
Experiments
in the Harton Pit, and
Letter
on the Results.
1855 Feb. 2 Lecture on the Pendulum Experiments
R. Inst.
lately
made in the Harton Colliery for
ascertaining
the mean Density of the
Earth.
1855 Feb. 3 On the Correction of the Compass in
Iron Athenaeum.
Ships.
(Remarks on Dr Scoresby’s
Investigations.)
1855 Address on presenting the Medal of the
R. Astr. Soc.
R.
Astr. Soc. to the Rev. William Rutter (Month.
Not.)
Dawes.
1855 Feb. 15 On the Computation of the Effect of
the Phil. Trans.
Attraction
of Mountain Masses, as
disturbing
the Apparent Astronomical
Latitude
of Stations in Geodetic Surveys.
1855 June 2 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
Board
of Visitors.
1855 Oct. 18 Address to the Individual Members of
the
Board
of Visitors of the Royal Observatory,
Greenwich.
(Equatoreal.)
1855 Nov. 21 Remarks upon certain Cases of Personal
R. Astr. Soc.
Equation
which appear to have hitherto (Memoirs.)
escaped
notice, accompanied with a Table
of
Results.
1855 Nov. 22 Discussion of the Observed Deviations
of Phil. Trans.
the
Compass in several Ships, Wood-built
and
Iron-built: with a General
Table
for facilitating the examination of
Compass-Deviations.
1855 Description of the Reflex Zenith Tube
of
the
Royal Observatory, Greenwich. (App.
to
the Greenwich Obs. for 1854.)
1856 Jan. 9 On Professor Peirce’s Criterion
for Astr. Journ.
discordant
observations. (Cambr.)
1856 Jan. 24 Account of Pendulum Experiments undertaken
Phil. Trans.
in
the Harton Colliery, for the
purpose
of determining the Mean Density
of
the Earth.
1856 June 7 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
Board
of Visitors.
1856 Aug. 25 On Scheutz’s Calculating Machine. Phil. Mag.
1856 Aug. 30 Science and the Government. (Reply to
Athenaeum.
statements
in the Morning Chronicle
about
the instrumental equipment of the
Royal
Observatory.)
1857 May 8 On the Means which will be available
for R. Astr. Soc.
correcting
the Measure of the Sun’s (Month.
Not.)
Distance
in the next twenty-five years.


