38 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIMON NEWCOMB— ARCHIBALD. mKum Y-£uxvii, 



98B. Norwegian translation — Omrids af astronomin. Efter S. Newcombs Populsere Astro- 

 nomi ved Sophus Tromholt. Udgivet af Selskabet for folkeoplysningens Frenune 

 som fyrste Tellsegohefte til Folkvennen for 1887. (Outline of Astronomy. Accord- 

 ing to [that is, abridged from] S. Newcomb's Popular Astronomy, by Sophus Trom- 

 holt. Published by the Society for the Advancement of Popular Education as the 

 first supplementary part to Folkvennen for 1887.) 

 Kristiania, Groudahl & Sons, Bogtrykkeri, 1887, 16 mo. 339 pp. + 1 plate. 



9SC. Russian translation — Astronomi'fa v obshcheponiatnom izlozhenii, dopolnennaia G. Foge- 



lem, s. 195 ris. (Astronomy in popular presentation, supplemented by G. Fogel, with 



195 charts and illustrations.) [From the second German edition by N. S. Drenteln.] 



St. Petersburg, 1896. 



Cajori, in his History of Mathematics in the United States, and the author of the sketch of Newcomb in the New York Tribune 

 (compare nos. 4 and 63 in Section I of this bibliography), state that there was a French edition of the Popular Astronomy. 

 This is not the case. 



99. The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac for the year 1881. First edition. Edited 

 with preface by Simon Newcomb. 

 Washington, Bureau of Equipment, 187S. 

 The Almanacs for the years 1882-1900 were published in a similar manner, 1879-1S97. 



The preface of the last volume, prepared under Newcomb's supervision, was by \V. Harkness, who in 1S97 succeeded S. New- 

 comb as director of the Nautical Almanac and senior professor of mathematics, U. S. Navy. 



100. Report of the secretary of the navy [including Reports of Superintendent of Nautical 



* Almanac]. 



Washington, Govt, print, off. (1878): 162-164; (1879): 127-129; (1880): 122-129; (1881): 236-237; (1882) 



132-134; (1883): 270-273; (1884): 160-162; (1885): 116-118; (1886): 244-245; (1887): 226-229; (1888) 



180-182; (1889): 432-433; (1890): 105-107; (1891): 132-134; (1892): 141-142;' (1893): 164-166; (1894) 



171-175; (1895): 114-116. 

 Most of S. Newcomb's report published in 1887 was reprinted in Astr. Nach., vol. 119 (June 25, 1888), 



cols. 221-224. 



101. Researches on the motion of the moon made at the United States Naval Observatory, 



Washington. Part I — Reduction and discussions of observations of the moon before 

 1750. 



Washington, 1878, 280 pp. 



Also in Wash. Obs., 1875 (1878), Appendix 2. 



"Engaged on this memoir for six years." Nature, 1878. Part II was published posthumously in 1912; see there (no. 317). 



102. "Astronomy.," "Galaxy," "Gravitation" " Probability, Theory of , or calculus of proba- 



bility." 

 In Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia, edited by F. A. P. Barnard, A. Guyot, etc., 4 vols. 

 New York, A. J. Johnson's Son, 1878. 

 See also nos. 179 and 258 of this Section. 



103. A manufactured comet. 



Harper's Mag., New York, vol. 57 (June, 1878): 139-141. 



104. Lockyer's Star-gazing Past and Present. 



Nation, New York, vol. 27 (July 11, 1878): 29. 

 Anonymous review. 



105. Elcipses of the sun. 



Princeton Rev., vol. 2 (Nov., 1878): 848-864. 



106. Note on the tidal force. 



Science Observer, Boston, vol. 2 (Nov., 1878): 25. 



Letter, dated Washington, Nov. 19, 1878, replying to Mr. Arnold'scriticismoftheexplanationoftwotidesaday inNewcomb's 

 Popular Astronomy. 



107. On the recurrence of solar eclipses, with tables of eclipses from B. C. 700 to A. D. 2300. 



Washington, Bureau of navigation, Navy dept, 1879, 55 pp. 

 Also in Astr. Papers, 1882, vol. 1, pt. 1 (1879). 



"A considerable part of this work of constructing the tables [was] performed by John Meier." Preface. 



