357 



" (ö. 320.) 23ev9l. ÄO'imoö 23b. III. ^. 81 unb 117 

 mxm. 34). 



" (@. 321.) An a ccoiint of Ih e Ea rl of H osse's grea t 

 Tciescope p. li — 17, ivo tie Sifle ber im 9)?avj 1845 »oii 

 Dr. fKübinfou unb @ir ^ame^ @outI) aiifaelöften 9?ebel ijegeben 

 ivil'b. »Dr. Robinson could nol leave Ihis part of bis siibject 

 wilhotit calling attention to thc tact, Ihat no real nebula seemed 

 to exist among so many of Ihese objects chosen wilhout any 

 bias: all appeared lo be Clusters of stars, and every additional 

 ono which sball be resolvcd will be an additional argument 

 against ihe i-xistcrice of any such.« <B d) U m d ^ e V , Qtflr. 

 ''}iflri)r. 9(0. 536. — 3» ^^^ Notice sur les graiids Teles- 

 c p c s d e L r d O X in a n 1 w n . a u j o u r d 'h u i E a r I o f R o s s e 

 (Biblio thequc universelle de Geneve T. LVII. ISiS p. 

 342 — 357) iKift (^ • »Sir James South rappelle que janiais il 

 n'a vu de represcnlations siderales aussi magnifiquos que cellcs 

 que lui ofl'rait rinstrumeut de Parsonstown; qu'une bonne partie 

 des nebuleuses sc presentaient comme des ainas ou groupes 

 d'etoiles, tandis que quelques autres, ä ses youx dti moins, 

 n'otl'raieiit aucune apparence de resolulioii en etoiles.« 



^^ (@. 321.) Report of Ihe fifteenth Meeting of Ihe Bri- 

 tish Association, held at Cambridge in June 18i3, p. 

 XXXVI unb Outlincs of Astr. p. 597 unb 598. »By lar the 

 major pari«, fa^t ©ii" 3'>')" S^ev\'(i)e{, »probably at ieast nine 

 tenlhs of the nebulous Contents of thc heavens oonsist of ne- 

 bulae of spherical or eliiptical lorms, presenting every variety 

 of eiongation and central condensation. Of Ihesc a great nnmber 

 have been resolvcd into dislanL slars (by the Rcfleclor of the 

 Earl of Rosse), and a vast multitude morc have been found to 

 prescnt that mottled appearance, which renders it almost a 

 matter of certainly that an incrcase of optica! power would show 

 Ihem lo be similarly composed. A not unnatural or unfair in- 

 duction would therefore seem to be, that those which resist 

 such' resolution. do so only in consequence of the smallness 

 and closeness of the stars of which Ihey consist: thal, in short, 

 Ihcy arc only oplically and not (ihysically nebulous. — Allhough 

 ncbulac do exist which cvcii in ihis powerful leiescope (of Lord 

 Hosse) appear as ncbulac, without any sign of resolution, it may 



