50 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIMON NEWCOMB— ARCHIBALD. [MEM0I TvoL T xvn I ; 



277B. German translation — Simon Newcomb's Astronomie fur Jedermann — Eine allgemein- 

 verstiindliche Darstellung der Erscheinungen des Himmels. Nach der Ubersetzung 

 von F. Glaser, bearbeitet von R. Schorr und K. Graff. 



Jena, Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1907, 8+364 pp. 



Zweite Auflage, Jena, 1910, 10+366 pp. +6 maps. Dritte Auflage, 1920, 12+385 pp. Vierte Auflage, 

 1921, 8+409 pp., mit 1 Titelbild, 3 Tafeln, 3 Sternkarten und 89 Abbildungen. 



277C. Bohemian translation — S. Newcombova Astronomie pro Kazdeho. Se svolenim spiso- 

 vatelovym volne pfelozil Dr. Bohuslav Masek. 

 Prague, J. Otto, 1909, 391 pp. + 5 plates (Portrait). 



Cesk& Knihovna zabavy a pou6eni . VydavaUstfednispolekceskychprofessoru. Pofadii FrantiSekBily. CisIo25. Transla- 

 tion of the London edition. 



277D. Swedish translation — Newcomb Astronomi for Alia, en popular framstallning av him- 

 melsforeteelserna. Svensk bearbetning av Osten Bergs trand. 

 Stockholm, A. Bonnier, [1909], 10+308 pp. 



"Vetenskap och Bildning ...," Band II. There were 3,000 copies in this edition, which was prepared for use as a textbookin 

 the high-schools. 



278. [Length of the tropical year.] 



[Annals of the Central Chamber for Weights and Measures (Russian)], St. Petersburg, vol. 5 (1903): 84-S8. 

 Letter from Prof. Newcomb, translated into Russian, by F. Blumbach. 



279. The universe as an organism. [Report of an address before the Astronomical and Astro- 



physical S.ociety of America, Dec. 29, 1902.] 



Science, New York, n. s. vol. 17 (Jan. 23, 1903): 121-129. 



Also in Sci. Amer. Suppl., vol. 55 (Feb. 21, 1903): 22694-22696. 



Also in Side-Lights on Astronomy (1906): 300-311; see no. 300 of this Section. 



279A. French translation. L'univers comme organisme. 



Revue Scientifique, Paris, 4 s., vol. 19 (Mar. 14, 1903): 321-326. 



279B. German translation (abridged). Das Weltall als einheitlicher Organismus. 



Astronomische Rundschau, Lussinpiccolo, Austria, vol. 5, no. 44 (1903): 113-119. 



280. Present state and needs of astronomical research. 



Carnegie Institution of Washington, Year Book, No. 1, 1902 (Jan. 1903): 147-152. 

 Dated Washington, Oct. 8, 1902. 

 Appendix E to Report of advisory committee on astronomy, submitted by Simon Newcomb et ah, pages 87-104. 



281. On the desirableness of a reinvestigation of the problems growing out of the mean motion 



of the moon. 



Mo. Notices R. Astr. Soc, vol. 63 (Mar. 13, 1903): 316-324. 



282. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer. 



Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. [Oct.], 1903, 12+424 pp. 

 See also no. 230 of this Section, and no. 14 of Section I. 



283. [The Moon Considered as a Planet, by James Nasmyth and James Carpenter.] 



Nation, New York, vol. 77 (Nov. 5, 1903): 368-369. 

 Anonymous review. 



284. The new problems of the universe. 



Harper's Mag., vol. 107 (Nov., 1903): 872-876. 



Also in Side-Lights on Astronomy (1906): 18-30; see no. 300 in this Section. 



285. On the apparent extent of the illumination surrounding a new star on the hypothesis that 



it is reflected light. 

 Astr. Jl., vol. 23 (Nov. 25, 1903): 212. 



286. "Asteroids," "Astronomy," "Astronomy: History," "Astronomy: Practical," 



"Astronomy: Theoretical," "Aurora Borealis," "Clock," "Geodesy," "Gravitation," 

 "Horizon," "Mercury," "Parallax," "Refraction," "Saturn," "Scintillation," "Solar 

 System," "Stars," "Sun," "Time," "Time: Measurement of,;' "Transits," "Uni- 

 verse," in Encyclopedia Americana, 22 volumes. 

 New York, Scientific American, 1904. 



S. Newcomb was the " department and advisory editor" in astronomy for this work. In the 1920 edition of this Encyclo- 

 pedia (in 30 volumes) the articles "Clock," "Gravitation," "Time," "Time: Measurement of" are unsigned; the article 

 "Mercury" is signed by Eric Doolittle alone, and the articles "Horizon," "Parallax," "Refraction," "Scintillation," 

 "Solar System," and "Transits" by Simon Newcomb alone; the others are signed by Newcomb with the added statement 

 "Revised by Eric Doolittle." 



