CX.XXV111 NOTES. 



Lassell, at Liverpool, with a twenty- foot reflector made by himself (Rep. of 

 the British Assoc4ation, 1850, p. xxxv.) 



( 626 ) p. 384. Compare Harding's Kleine Ephemeriden fiir 1835, S. 100 ; 

 and Struve, in Schum. Astr. Nachrichten, No. 139 S. 389. 



(0 p. 384. We read in the Actis Eruditorum pro anno 1684, p. 424, as 

 an extract from the " Systema phsenomenorum Satnrni, autore Galletio, pro- 

 posito eccl. Avenionensis :" " Nonnunquam corpus Satnrni non exacte 

 annuli medium obtinere visum fuit. Hinc evenit, ut, quum planeta orientalis 

 est, centrum ejus extremitati orientali annuli proprius videatur, et major pars 

 ah occidental! latere sit cum ampliore obscuritate." 



( 6:8 ) p. 385. Homer, in Gehler's Neuem physik. Worterbuch (New Phy- 

 sical Dictionary), Bd. viii. 1836, S. 174. 



( 629 ) p. 385. Benjamin Peirce on the Constitution of Saturn's ring, in 

 Gould's Astron. Journal, 1851, Vol. ii. p. 16. "The ring consists of a 

 stream, or of streams, of a fluid rather denser than water flowing around the 

 primary." Compare also Silliman's Amer. Journal, 2d series, Vol. xii. 1851, 

 p. 99 ; and respecting the inequalities of the ring, and the perturbing, and 

 thereby maintaining, influences of the satellites, John Herschel, Outlines, 

 p. 320. 



C 530 ) p. 386. Sir John Herschel, Results of Astron. Observ. at the Cape 

 of Good Hope, p. 414430 ; the same, in the Outlines of Astr. p. 650 ; and 

 upon the Law of the Distances, 550. 



C 881 ) p. 387. Fries, Vorlesungeu iiber die Sternkunde, 1833, S. 325 ; 

 Challis, in the Transact, of the Cambridge Philos. Society, Vol. iii. p. 171. 



C 532 ) p. 387. William Herschel, Account of a Comet, in the Phil. Traus. 

 for 1781, Vol. Ixxi. p 492. 



t 633 ) p. 388. Kosmos, Bd. iii. S. 445 ; Engl. edit. p. 323. 



( 634 ) p. 388. Madler, in Schumacher's Astr. Nachr. No. 493. (Compare, 

 respecting the ellipticity or compression at the poles of Uranus, Arago, 

 Annuaire for 1842, p. 577579.) 



( 635 ) p. 390. For the observations of Lassell, at Star-field (Liverpool), and 

 of Otto Struve, compare Monthly Notices of the Royal Astron. Soc. Vol. viii. 

 1848, p. 4347, and 135139 ; also Schum. Astr. Nachr. No. 623, S. 365. 



( B36 ) p. 390. Bernhard von Lindenau, Beitrag zur Gesch. der Neptun's- 

 Entdeckung (Contribution to the History of the Discovery of Neptune), im 

 Erganz. Heft zu Schum. Astr. Nachr. 1849, S. 17. 



(0 p. 391. Astr. Nachr. No. 580. 



