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CIV. The discovery of the Satellites of Mars. Nature, Vol. 16, pp. 45G-57, Sept. 



27, 1877; also pp. 397-398. 

 CV. Elements of the Mars Satellites. A.N., Vol. 90, cols. 275-276, Sept. 15, 



1877. [In a letter from John Kodgers.J 



CVI. Elementary theorems relating to the geometry of space of three dimensions 

 and of uniform positive curvature in the fourth dimension. Cr. Jl., Vol. 

 So, pp. 293-299. 1877. " Full extracts of this very important contri- 

 bution to non-euclidean geometry are given in the Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica, Article, Measurement.'" Cajori, Hist. Math, in U. S. 



CVII. The Satellites of Mars. 0., A'ol. 1, No. 7, pp. 213-214, Oct. 20, 1877. 

 (Dated Wash., Aug. 22, 1877.) 



CVIII. On the mean motion of the Moon. S.Jl., 3 Series, Vol. 14, pp. 401-410, 

 Nov., 1877. Also a summary in The English Mechanic, Vol. 26, p. 400, 

 1878. 



CIX. "New Elements of Iphegenia (107), etc.," communicated by Simon Nevr- 

 comb. A.N., Nov. 28, 1877, Vol. 91, cols. 107-8. 



ex. Plans for measuring the Velocity of Light. New York Tribune, April 20, 



1878, p. 6, col. 1. 



CXI. Reduction of the Constants of Precession found by Bessel, Struve. and 

 Nyren, to a Common Equinox. Vierteljahrschrift der Astronomischen 

 Gesellschaft in Leipzig, 1878, pp. 107-110. 



ÇXII. Eclipses of the Sun. Princeton Review, 1878, II, 848-64. 



CXIII. The Course of Nature. An address before the Amer. Assoc, for the Adv. 

 of Science, at St. Louis, Aug. 22, 1878, by Prof. Simon Newcomb, 

 President. Supplement to P.S.M., No. 18, Oct., 1878, pp. 481-493. Also 

 New York Tribune, Aug. 23, 1878, p. 2, col. 4. Also Kansas City 

 Review Sept. and Oct., 1878, Vol. 2, pp. 356 and 392. Also Proc. 

 Amer. Assoc, 1878, pp. 1-28. Also S. Jl., 1879, I, 64-89. Also Inde- 

 pendent, Sept. 5, 1878. 



CXIV. Researches on the ^Motion of the ^loon made at the U. S. Naval 

 Observatory, Washington. Part I. — Reductions and discussion of the 

 moon before 1750. Washington, 1878, pp. 280. (App. 2, W.O., 1875.) 

 " Engaged on this memoir for six years." Nature, Jan., 1878. There 

 is an abstract in S. Jl., Nov., 1877. 



CXV. The Manufactured Comet. Harper's Magazine, Vol. 57, pp. 139-41, 

 June, 1878. 



CXVI. Remarks on taking the Chair as I'resident ; p. 374. Reply to Speeches 

 of Welcome to the Association : pp. 377-78. Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. 

 Science, XXVI, 1877. Salem, 1878. 



CXVII. The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. Edited by Simon 

 Newcomb annually. 1881-1899. Washington, 1878-98. 



CXVIII. Note on a class of transformation which surfaces may undergo in space 

 of more than three dimensions. Amer. Jl. Math., 1878, Vol. 1. pp. 1-4. 

 " H a fourth dimension were added to space a closed material surface 

 (or shell) could be turned inside out by simple flexure, without either 

 stretching or tearing." 



CXIX, Instructions for observing the transit of Mercury, May 5-6, 1878. 

 Wash., 1878, pp. 8. Diagrams and Plates; Also App. 2, W.O., 1876. 



CXX. Astronomy by Robert S. Ball, LL.D., F.R.S., specially revised for 

 American schools by Simon Newcomb. Henry Holt & Co., N.Y., 1878; 

 pp. xiii, + 154. (Of the Series " Handbooks for Students and General 

 Readers.") 



