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242. Professor S. Newcomb at the Royal Astronomical Society. 



The Observatory, London, vol. 22 (July, 1899): 256-257. 

 Also in Pop. Astr., vol. 7 (Aug., 1899): 392-393. 

 Report of an address delivered June 9, 1S99. 



243. The terrestrial gegenschein. 



Nature, London, vol. 60 (Oct. 5, 1899): 544. 

 A letter. 



244. The solar motion. 



The Observatory, London, vol. 22 (Dec. 1899): 443. 

 Letter dated Washington, Nov. 13, 1899. 



245. How the planets are weighed. 



McClure's Mag., vol. 14 (Jan., 1900): 290-292. 



Also in Side-Lights on Astronomy (1906): 133-139; see no. 300 of this Section. 



246. On the distribution of the mean motions of the minor planets. 



Astr. JL, vol. 20 (Feb. 12, 1900): 165-166. 



247. A chat about the stars. 



The Youth's Companion, Boston, vol. 74 (Fell. 15, 1900): 76-77. 

 Portrait. 



248. Feasibility of determining the solar parallax by observations of Eros at the coming oppo- 



sition, 1900-01. 

 Astr. JL, vol. 20 (Apr. 9, 1900): 189-191. 



249. Report of the Watson Trustees on the award of the Watson Medal to David Gill. 



Science, New York, vol. 11 (May 11, 1900): 721-726. 



250. Suggested observations of shadow bands and other unexplained irregularities of light to be 



made by the members of the National Geographic Society during the eclipse [of the sun]. 

 [Washington (?)1 May 18, 1900. lp. 



251. The coming eclipse. 



The Evening Post, New York (May 19, 1900). 



252. Plans of American eclipse parties. 



Astrophysical JL, vol. 11 (May, 1900): 314-317. 



Also in Proc. and Trans, of the R. Astr. Soc. of Canada vol. 5 (1900): xix. 



Circular letter in connection with the eclipse May 23, 1900, signed by S. New comb, chairman of the Eclipse Committee of the 

 Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America, and others. 



253. The coming total eclipse of the sun. 



McClure's Mag., New York, vol. 15 (May, 1900): 45-53. 



254. Chapters on the stars. 



Pop. Sci. Mo., vol. 57 (July, 1900): 227-239; (Aug.): 376-389; (Sept.): 500-516; (Oct.): 638-659; vol. 58 



(Nov.): 3-27; (Dec): 130-147; (Jan., 1901): 307-323; (Feb.): 413-428; (Mar.): 449^66. 

 The articles were collected, revised, and expanded in book form, no 254B. 

 Reviewed in Publ. Astr. Soc. of the Pacific, vol. 13 (1901); 99-114. 



254A. French translations — "Les etoiles variables" [October article], and "Etude du ciel 

 6toile" [February article]. 

 Ciel et Terre, Brussels, vol. 22 (Aug. 16 and Sept. 1, 1901): 281-290, 305-317; and vol. 23 (Feb. 1, Mar. 

 15, 1903): 561-574, 592-599. 



254B. The Stars: A Study of the Universe. 

 New York, Putnam', 1901, 11+333 pp. 



Reprinted Feb., 1902, June, 1902, Sept., 1904, Oct., 1906, Aug., 1908. This last edition has on title page: 

 New York, C. P. Putnam's Sons, London, J. Murray, 1908. Up to Feb., 1922, 3,520 copies of the work 

 had been sold. 

 No. 9 in The Science Series, ed. by J. M. Cattell and F. E. Beddard. * 



London, Murray, Nov., 1901. Second ed. in The Progressive Science Series, London, Murray [Mar.], 

 1902. 

 Reviewed in Nation, New York, vol. 73 (Nov. 21, 1901): 403. 



Reviewed by E. Anding in Vierteljahrsschrift der Astr. Gesetl., vol. 37 (1902): 328-348. 

 Reviewed by H. R. H. in The Observatory, London, vol. 25 (Feb., 1902): 96-98. 

 Reviewed by R. A. Gregory in Nature, London, vol. 65 (Mar. 13, 1902): Suppl. viii-x. 

 Reviewed by W. W. Campbell in Publ. A str. Soc. Pacific, vol. 14 (Apr., 1902): 51-53. 

 Reviewed in Spectator, vol. 88 (May 31, 1902): 846-S47. 

 Reviewed in Athenaeum, vol. 1 (May 31, 1902): 694. 



