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CCCXXV. The 19th Century. A Review of Progress during the past one 

 hundred years in the Chief Departments of Human Activity. Reprinted 

 under arrangement from the New York Evening Post of January 12, 

 1901 G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1901, pp. 494. 

 " The Century's Advance in Astronomical Science," by Simon Newcomb, 



pp. 323-335. 

 CCCXXVI. On the use of statements of ancient solar eclipses for correcting 



the elements of the moon's motion, with special reference to Prof. Grin- 

 zel's "Spezieller Kanon des Finsternisse." A.N., Vol. 154, cols. 197-202 ; 



Jan. 2.J. 1901. Dated, Wash., Dec. 5, 1900. 

 CCCXXVn. Statistical studies of proper motions. P.S.M., LVIII, 449-66; 



March, 1901. Illustr. 

 CCCXXVIII. Position of the Equinox and the values of other elements derived 



from recent Greenwich and Washington observations of the sun. Astr. 



Jl., XXI, 141-2; May 21, 1901. 

 CCCXXIX. A study of the limiting magnitudes of the Cape Photographic Durch- 



musterung. Astr. Jl., XXI, 153-155; June 28, 1901. 

 CCCXXX. Aeronautics. Is the Air Ship Coming? McClure, XVII, 431-5; 



Sept., 1901. 

 CCCXXXI. On the Cordoba Durchmusterung and some conclusions derived 



from it. Astr. JL, XXII, 21-26 ; Sept.' 18, 1901. 

 CCCXXXI I. Stars ; A Study of the Universe. Murray, London and Putnam, 



New I'ork, 1901, pp. x + 333. [Number 9 in "The Scientific Series," 



Prof. Cottell, editor]. See No. CCCXX. 



" An excellent popular treatise." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1902. — 



Reviewed in: Nation, LXXIII, 403; Nov. 21, 1901. "Admirable work" 



—Spectator, LXXXVIII, 846-7; May 31, 1902. "A most able and 



suggestive work " — Athenseum. 1902, I, 694 ; May, 31. — Nature, Vol. 65 ; 



March 13. 1902 ; Supplement viii-x. Review by R. A. Gregory — O., XXV, 



96-98, 1902.— Publ. Astronom. Soc. Pacific, XIV, 51-3; April, 1902. 



Review by W\ W. Campbell. 

 CCCXXXIII. A rude attempt to determine the total light of all the stars. 



Astrophysical Jl., XIV, 297-312; Dec, 1901. 

 CCCXXXIV. Elemente des Planeten, 1901, H. N. A.N., Vol. 157, col. 225; 



Dec. 30. 1901. 

 CCCXXXV. La période des taches solaires. Paris Bull. Soc. Astr. France, 1901, 



pp. 355-357. 

 CCCXXXVI. Report on Catalogue of Scientific Literature, by Simon Newcomb 



and John S. Billings, Dated, Wash., Oct. 15, 1896. The Smithsonian 



Institution. Documents relative to its origin and History, Vol. II pp. 



1770-71. Wash.. 1901. 

 CCCXXXVII. Astronomy for Everybody ; a popular Exposition of the Wonders 



of the Heavens. (Science for Everybody). McClure & Co., New York, 



1902; pp. XV + 333. 



English edition, with an introduction by Sir Robt. S. Ball, pp. 



XV. + 341. Isbister & Co., London. 1903. 



Reviewed in Nation, LXXVI, 172; Feb. 26, 1903 — Athenteum, 1903, 



2. 261 ; Aug. 1.— ^Nature, Vol. 69, pp. 75-6 ; Nov. 26, 1903. Unfavourable. 

 CCCXXXVIII. The Fairyland of Geometry. Harper's Mag., Vol. 104, pp. 249- 



52 ; Jan., 1902. 

 CCCXXXIX. On conditions which discourage scientific work in America. 



N.A.R.. CLXXIV. 145-58; Feb., 1902. See Rev. of, Reviews (English 



Edition), XXV. 262; March, 1902. 



