190 



Star ant> Meatfoer Gossip 



Saturn, light-variation of its 

 satellites, 97 



Scorpii, Lambda and Upsilon 

 visible at remarkably low 

 altitudes, 64 



Sculptoris, Gamma, seen with 

 opera-glass from Bourne- 

 mouth, 65 



Shakespeare and the " Seven 

 Stars," 167, 168 



and Charles's Wain, 167, 168 

 Shaw, Dr. W. N., on thunder- 

 storms at the mouths of great 

 rivers, 117 



on the effect of gun-firing 



upon the weather, 146-149 

 Sirius, 22 



its splendour, 27, 28, 32, 33 



in daylight, 95, 96 



in mid-March, 27, 28 



and halos, 107 

 Sky in July, 20, 21 



of striking transparency, 28 

 Spica in July, 169 



Spenser and the February Sun, 26 

 Star Chart ; an excellent record 



of work, 165 



Stars, faint, their light con- 

 stancy, 153 



green, mentioned in " Os- 

 sian," 62 



in daylight, 92-96 



rare brilliancy of, 28 



seen at low altitudes, 64 



their multitude, 164-166 



visible with the naked eye, 

 165, 166 



Stone-falls most prolific in May, 



Storm at Hartlepool, 11-19 

 Summer, beauties of, 21 



an afternoon of, at Seaton 

 Carew, 57, 58 



Sun, its winter journey, 26, 27 



in February, 26 



how measured in Dante's 

 day, 49 



Logan's hymn to the, 56 



at midnight, 78, 79 



Sunset, beautiful, 29 



red, 113-115 



clouds, their formation, 164 



Tears of St. Lawrence (August 

 Meteors), 171 



Temperature and reflecting tele- 

 scopes, 162, 163 



The English Mechanic and stars 

 in daylight, 95 



Thunder, its audibility, 120 



Thunderstorms at river mouths, 

 116, 117 



in Straits of Magellan, 117 



fatalities from, 118, 119 



in California, 121-123 

 Twilight Comet, 50 



Universe, the, and the Andro- 

 meda Nebula, 153 



Variable stars discovered at 



Flagstaff Observatory, 82 

 Vega, steady light of, 64 

 Venus, 21-23 



scintillation of, 35, 36 



rotation period of, 82 



in daylight, 95, 96 



crescent invisible to naked 

 eye, 98 



a good naked-eye observa- 

 tion of, 98 



with a halo, 107 



Vulcan, the phantom planet, 

 158-160 



Wandsworth Common fatalities 



from lightning, 119 

 Waterloo and rain, 146 

 Weather and cats, 110-112 



portents, 101-109 



rhyme, 108, 109 



White's Selborne and glow- 

 worms, 63 



Whitmell, C. T., on the distance 

 of rainbows, 174 



Winter, some reflections on, 37 



Wolvistorfs rescue of Pavonia, 47 



Yorkshire, south-east rains in, 

 112, 113 



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