Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy eBook

George Biddell Airy
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Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy eBook

George Biddell Airy
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 516 pages of information about Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy.

1860 Feb. 11 Report on the Instrumental Equipments 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.

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