

OF. IN 



: 



l M> . ... .... - :. 



ed siral in form are not 



tralia, Baltrinin. Canada, Columbia, 



1 ; ' ;;;v . : . ; , . 



t 



earned spiral u. I 

 upon photographic plate*. "ni.j -.-! t<> thi .-hi^-.- r 



-When a vary few la> 

 te suspicion wot expressed that ter- 



tsjdoi ndni p ' - raiiott "' 

 i received with iimouulMl by a Urge 



neutral 



n . 

 SwiUeriand was 



by a large 



istrunomen; but the researches of 

 r have ratal to the rank of a 

 ' that what is known astro- 

 h<- inMaiitaneouspoleof theKarth'* 



The system of changing time by entire bottrs, 



!.:..._-.:. ' ' . - . - .. 



adopted by many other 



ii-.'uUr 'l;-f n f " ' fr in 



p3od -.f toot bandred and 





in Karth's axes of 

 comb suggested that if 



should cause a syn- 

 >i in the moan tea level, and 

 that possibly it might be detected by a careful 



Blot - . oH BOTW r, \ ;v B Hii I otl ti. 



t.'.. JMod f /> in; divtt B, nohi m h m 

 . He chose the observations at two 

 stations near San Francisco, <al.. 

 BW, communicated his results 

 in an official report. He found from a 



-an* serU 



days and a semi-amplitude of 173 millimetres. 



riMie undertook 



I*riod 



. sand as.- ideof 12'5 milli- 



wo series gave a 



BJOM i riod f r:i T i doji, sad .1 M .n sjort 

 ampUtudt of 1*> millimetres or 0*59 inches. 



phase epochs from these tidal investiga- 

 tions show in a remarkable manner the har- 

 mony between the results of tidal and astronom- 

 ical observation which can hardly be regarded 

 .n idler's paper on this sub- 

 ject may be found in " Astronomical Journal " 



1 1. meow Yh -f Bfe Major 



Pland- several evenings l urine the 



th.- *ami- timr. i >n ..n OTolOB thf dim ! r , f 



the I.>. l.--r\uJ..r a in t h. ,\,i.iii- -k\ 



> a single tnin the planets Jo- 



Mars, Venu. Saturn, and I'ra- 

 '.much the telescope, of course. 

 It was an extranrtlinary hap|>enin)?. not to be re- 

 in many years. Man*, " 



hone with such brilliancy, had 



ished to the faintness .f a t hird- magnitude 



star, but its redness was in striking contrast to 



I aiflcatioi of I ime. The joint com: 



on the uniflcation of astronomical, civil, and 

 nautical days, have communicated with the as- 

 tronomers of all countries for the ascertainment 

 ; the desirability of such 

 change, A m 

 countries declare in its favor: Austria, Aus- 



plan effect in Australia, 



making the relation to Greenwich time, at fol- 



tralia. nine; and all the other pf 

 hours ahead. At Sydney, under the new system 

 of uniform utaiidard time, it was necessarv only 

 to set the timepieces back lest than five minutes. 

 \*tronomlral Pnhliratlona. - Astronoov 

 ical Journal." Koa. 800. 819. and 

 lithet a list by Dr. Chandler of 844 variable 



ot h>-r important information. It it complete op 



. . . : ,- . . , '..-.,...-. 



the hands of all workers on this class of stars. 



rordiiha llurrhuiul-riinff. Parl II. I i... 

 second part of the important undertaking of the 



of the M Results of the Obeervatory." 



tains the positions and magnitudes of 160.415 



stars, making, with the first part, a total of 



840315, between 22* and 42* of south 



!> this volume it an atla- 

 on the same scale as Argelander's and 8 

 feld's. Tables are given of the number of 

 stars observed in each degree of dedinalino 

 and 4 minutes of right ascension. In the tone 

 above mentioned (90* wide) ever/ star down to 

 the tenth magnitude it recorded. The work in 



taking bv Ir. John >f. Thome, director. 



i. a sup- 

 plement to his New General Catalogue of Neb- 

 nhr. by Dr. J. I. K. Dreyer. Director of the Ar- 

 ow^ Obasrvol rji fiSi [ . *Ui 



: -: : : . .:..,-.- 



number of nebul* (7340 * 1 J) M*. all 

 known up to the date of issue, January. IBM. 



\ tronomlcsl Prixea. The Watson gold 

 medal was awarded to Dr. Seth 

 his valuable work on variable stars, and for hit 

 researches of the variation of terrestrial latitude, 



TV /tsjssssj prits, a gold medal, wot be- 

 stoweil u|.-n I*rof. George K. Hale, of th 

 v,r- > ' ' a . 1 I' h OM f ". r |k 



. 



the medal hot each year since been awarded to 

 worthy ot 



to^ 



(work on'tbe SonT'Only' 

 have received thb medal, viz. : 



juigley. now secretary of the Smith- 



with value of $800l was awarded to Paul & 

 Yendell for the best series of determinations of 



