1871 Apr. 5 Remarks on the Determination of a Ship’s
R. Soc. (Proc.)
Place
at Sea.
1871 May 2 Remarks on Samuelson’s Paper “Description
Inst. C.E.
of
two Blast Furnaces,” &c. (Minutes.)
1871 May 3 Note on Barometric Compensation of the
Phil. Mag.
Pendulum.
1871 June 3 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
Board
of Visitors.
1871 June 9 Remarks on Mr Abbott’s observations
on R. Astr. Soc.
eta
Argus. Also on A.S. Herschel’s and
(Month. Not.)
J.
Herschel’s Mechanism for measuring
Time
automatically in taking Transits.
1871 Erratum in Results of Greenwich
R. Astr. Soc.
Observations
of the Solar Eclipse of 1860, (Month. Not.)
July
18. Also Observations of the Solar
Eclipse
of 1870, Dec. 21-22, made at the
Royal
Observatory, Greenwich.
1871 Aug. Investigation of the Law of the
Progress Phil. Mag.
of
Accuracy in the usual process for
Forming
a Plane Surface.
1871 Nov.16 Corrections to the Computed Lengths
of Phil. Trans.
Waves
of Light for Kirchhoff’s Spectral
Lines.
1871 On a supposed alteration in the amount
R. Soc. (Proc.)
of
Astronomical Aberration of Light,
produced
by the passage of the Light
through
a considerable thickness of
Refracting
Medium.
1871 Nov. 29 Biography of G.B. Airy. (Probably
Daily Telegraph.
corrected
by himself.)
1871 Dec. 8 Note on a special point in the
R. Astr. Soc.
determination
of the Elements of the (Month. Not.)
Moon’s
Orbit from Meridional Observations
of
the Moon.
1871 Dec. 26 Proposed devotion of an Observatory
to R. Astr. Soc.
observation
of the phenomena of Jupiter’s (Month.
Not.)
Satellites.
1872 Jan. Address to the Council of the Royal
Society
on
the propriety of continuing the Grant
to
the Kew Observatory for meteorological
observations.
1872 Feb. 8 Experiments on the Directive Power of
Phil. Trans.
large
Steel Magnets, of Bars of
magnetized
Soft Iron, and of Galvanic
Coils,
in their Action on external small
Magnets—with
Appendix by James Stuart.
1872 Feb. 12 Further Observations on the state of
an Camb. Phil. Soc.
Eye
affected with a peculiar malformation.


