Astronomy 607 



" Bibliography of the Chemical Influence of Light," by 

 Alfred Tuckerman (1891), in "Smithsonian Miscellaneous 

 Collections," Volume xxxiv. 



"Bibliography of Astronomy for 1887," by William C. 

 Winlock, in "Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections," Volume 



XXXIV. 



" The Index Catalogue of Nebulce, etc.," includes papers, 

 memoirs, and books on nebulae and clusters alphabetically 

 arranofed accordimj to authors, with a brief note to each 

 entry expressing its contents. The works of the elder Her- 

 schel on these subjects are analyzed at considerable length, in 

 order to partly supply the great want of an edition of his col- 

 lected works. The index is practically complete to 1877, and 

 comprises 1 10 octavo pages. The astronomical life of Sir 

 William Herschel covered forty-tw^o years. During this 

 period he published no less than sixty-nine different memoirs, 

 which are scattered through the annual volumes of the Phil- 

 osophical Tra7isactions of the Royal Society of London 

 from 1780 to 1818. In the absence of an edition of Her- 

 schel's collected w^orks. Doctors Holden and Hastings have 

 carried out the idea of making a full synopsis of every one 

 of his memoirs according to a model which he himself made 

 for one of his most important papers.^ Accordingl)- his me- 

 moirs on astronomical subjects have been analyzed, page by 

 page, by Professor Holden, and those on physics have been 

 treated in the same manner by Doctor Hastings. The w'ork 

 (of 114 octavo pages) supplies, in some measure, the crying- 

 need for a complete edition of his waitings. 



Doctor Tuckerman's "Index to Spectroscopic Literature" 

 is a stout volume of 424 octavo pages, comprising references 

 to 3829 papers by 799 authors. The astronomical portion 



'^Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, iSll, 

 Volume CI, part i, page 269. 



