128 Royal Society. 



observations made at Bushey Heatli (north latitude 51° 37' 44",3 j 

 west longitude, in time, from Greenwich h l m 20 8 ,93), in the 

 years 1825 and 1826. By Colonel Mark Beaufoy : comprehending, 

 1 . Transits of the moon and moon-culminating stars ; 2. Occupations 

 of stars by the moon ; 3. Lunar eclipses j 4. Eclipses of Jupiter's sa- 

 tellites. — On a new application of the method of determining the time 

 by observations of two stars when in the same vertical, to the case of 

 Polaris, when so situated with respect to any other circumpolar star 

 in the course of its diurnal revolution below the pole. By Dr. Tiarks. 

 — On the passage of the comet of Bootes over the disc of the sun on 

 the 18th of November 1826. In a letter from M. Gambart to J. F. 

 W. Herschel, Esq. Pres. — On a new period of eclipses. By James 

 Utting, Esq. — On an appearance, hitherto unnoticed, in the nebula 

 of Orion. By John Pond, Esq., Astronomer Royal. — Notice of a comet 

 discovered by M. Flaugergues at Viviers, March 29th, 1826. Ex- 

 tracted from a letter from M. Flaugergues to F. Baily, Esq., Pres. — 

 Astronomical observations : I. Observations taken at Stargard, and 

 the Paramatta observatory, New South Wales, in the years 1 825 and 

 1826. By Dr. Rumker. 1. Of the great comet of 1825 j 2. Of the 

 comet in Leo in 1825 ; 3. Of the lunar eclipse in May 1826 — of an 

 occultation during the eclipse — and of Mars near the opposition in 

 1826. II. Observations of the solar eclipse in November 1826, taken 

 at Bushey Heath. By Lieut. George Beaufoy, R.N. III. Observa- 

 tions of a comet in Eridanus, and of Ceres, Pallas and Vesta, near 

 their oppositions in the year 1 826, taken at Padua. By Professor San- 

 tini. IV. Observations of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, taken at 

 the Madras observatory, in the years 1817 — 1825. By John Golding- 

 ham, Esq. V. Observations taken at Calcutta in the year 1822 j and 

 an extract of a letter from Major J. A. Hodgson to Dr. Gregory. 



1. Of the transit of Mercury over the sun's disc in November, 1822 $ 



2. Of occultations of stars by the moon ; 3. Extract of a letter rela- 

 tive to the mode adopted for determining the times of the observations 

 of Jupiter's satellites, recorded at p. 440, vol. ii. of the Mem. Ast. 

 Soc. — Report of the council of the society to the seventh annual ge- 

 neral meeting. — Address delivered at a special general meeting of the 

 Astronomical Society of London, on April 11, 1827, &c. 



XXIV. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



Dec. 6, 1827.— ^HOMAS Henry Hall, Esq., and William Phillips, 

 JL Esq., were admitted into the Society. 



A paper was read, entitled, " On the Corrections in the Elements 

 of Delambre's Solar Tables, required by the Observations made at 

 the Roval Observatory at Greenwich ; by G. B. Airy, Esq., M.A., 

 Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, 

 communicated by J. F. W. Herschel, Esq." 



The author was desired by the Board of Longitude to examine the 

 discordancies between the right ascension of the sun, as observed at 



Greenwich 



