138 Major A. W. Baird and Prof. G. H. Darwin. 



Schedule of Notation — continued. 



initials. 



fepeea. 



JName 01 lide. 



T 



2 7 -3 7 



Larger solar elliptic. 



R 



27—1; 



Smaller solar elliptic. 



P 



7—2?/ 



Solar diurnal. 



Mm 



tr — J sr 



Lunar monthly. 



Mf 



2<7 



Lunar fortnightly. 



Sa 





Solar annual. 



Ssa 



2g 



Solar semi-annual. 



MSf 



2(<r-j) 



Luni-solar synodic fortnightly. 



MS 



47— 2<r— 2// 







p or 2MS 



2 7 — 4<r+2?7 







2SM 



2 7 + 2ff— 4^ 





> Compound tides. 



MK 



3 7 — 2<r 





2MK 



37-4^ 







MN 



4 7 — ha-{--& 







The operations of the computers give the values of k in degrees and 

 two places of decimals of a degree, but as the values of k are in no 

 case so consistent from year to year as to present variations of less 

 than a degree, the tables have been abridged by the entry merely of 

 the nearest degree. The values of k are printed in a different type 

 from those of H, and the degree mark has been omitted. 



In the case of the ports of Toulon and Brest the results in the 

 Report of the Committee of the British Association were given in 

 centimetres, but they have been reduced to feet for the sake of 

 uniformity. 



At the head of the table for each port the epoch, or instant, at which 

 the analysed observations begin is noted ; at every port (excepting 



