40 BIBLIOGEAPHY OF SIMON NEWCOMB— AKCHIBALD. mEiloI \\*t T xvn, 



124. Discussion and results of observations on transits of Mercury, from 1677 to 1881. 



Asir. Papers, vol. 1, 1882, pt. 6 (1882): 363-487. 



Reviewed in The Observatory, London, vol. 6 (May 1, 1883): 143-149. 



125. An eclipse of the moon. 



Science for All, edited by Robert Brown, London, Paris, and New York, Cassell & Co., vol. 5 (1882): 1-8. 



126. Instructions for observing the transit of Venus, December 6, 1882, prepared by the com- 



mission authorized by Congress and printed for the use of the observing parties. 



Washington, Govt, print, off., 1SS2, 50 pp. +4 maps. 

 Actually written by S. Newcomb as secretary of the commission. 



127. A small telescope and what to see with it. 



Harper's Mag., vol. 64 (March, 18S2): 523-536. 



Also in Side-Lights on Astronomy (1906): 76-105, as "Making and using a telescope"; see no. 300 of this 

 Section. 



128. Remarks on the instructions for observing the transit of Venus formulated by the Paris 



International Conference [in Oct. 1881]. 

 Mo. Notices R. Astr. Soc, vol. 42 (April 14, 1882): 275-281. 

 Also in Astr. Register, London, vol. 20 (April, 1882): 103-105. 



129. Probable times of the four contacts in the coming transit (Dec, 1882) of Venus. 



Astr. Nach., vol. 103 (Sept. 14, 1882): cols. 111-112. 



Dated Washington, Aug. 28, 18S2. 

 Also in The Observatory, London, vol. 5, (Nov., 1882): 313-314. 



130. Formulae and tables for expressing coiTections to the geocentric place of a planet in terms 



of symbolic corrections to the elements of the orbits of the earth and planet. By 

 Simon Newcomb, assisted by John Meier. 

 Astr. Papers, vol. 2, 1891, pt. 2 (1883): 1^8. 



131. "The Moon," in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., 25 vols. 



London & Edinburgh, A. & C. Black, vol. 16 (1883): 798-S03. 



For articles in later editions of the Britannica see nos. 271 and 316. No attempt has been made to list American pirated forms 

 of the ninth edition of the Britannica. 



132. The transit of Venus. 



Astr. Register, vol. 21 (Jan., 1883): 26-30. 



133. Solar parallax. 



Astr. Register, vol. 21 (Jan., 1S83): 32-33. 



Report of a paper presented at meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society. 



134. On Hell's alleged falsification of his observations of the transit of Venus in 1769. 



Jlfo. Notices R. Astr. Soc, vol. 43 (May 11, 1883): 371-381. 



Reference may be given to a sketch of Maximilian Hell or Holl (1720-1792) in the Catholic Encyclopaedia, New York, Appleton, 

 vol. 7 (1910). See also this bibliography, Sections I, no. SS, and II, no. 257. 



135. The apparent inequality of the mean motion of the moon. 



The Observatory, London, vol. 6 (Aug., 1883): 243-244. 

 Letter dated Neuchatel, Switzerland, July 11, 1883. 



136. Astronomy (American Science Series, Shorter Course), by Simon Newcomb and Edward S. 



Holden. 



New York, Holt, Oct., 18S3, 104-338 pp. 



Second ed. revised and enlarged, 1884. 10+352 pp. The other editions or reprints appeared in 1885, 

 1887 (450 copies of the 2,480 in this edition were destroyed by fire), 1SS9, 1S90, 1892, 1896, 1907. In 

 all 13,605 copies were printed. In 1892 the series title was changed to (American Science Series, 

 Briefer Course). The preface states: "The present treatise is a condensed edition of the Astronomy 

 [no. 110] of the American Science Series." 



136A. Elementary Astronomy by E. S. Holden. 

 New York, Holt, 1899, 15-446 pp. 



This work is condensed from the two volumes listed above in nos. 110 and 136. The number of copies sold was 562. 



137. Remarks on the published corrections to Hansen's lunar tables. 



Astr. Nach., vol. 107 (Dec. 4, 18S3): cols. 269-270. 



138. Development of the perturbative function and its derivatives in sines and cosints of 



multiples of the eccentric anomaly and in powers of the eccentricities and inclinations. 

 Astr. Papers, 1891, vol. 3, pt. 1 (1884): i-200. 



