31, 476

Argus, 481

Ariel, 309, 559

Aristarchus, 90

Aristillus, 88

Aristotle, lunar crater named after him, 88;
credulity respecting his writings, 267;
the Moon and the tides and, 535

Asteroids, 229-244

Astrea, 328

Astronomers of Nineveh, 156

Astronomical quantities, 558

Astronomy, ancient, 2-7;
Galileo's achievements in, 10;
the first phenomenon of, 2

_Athenaeum_, the, and Sir John Herschel's letter on Adams's share
in the discovery of Neptune, 330

Atmosphere, height of the Earth's, 100

Attraction, between the Moon and the Earth, 75;
between the planets, 148;
between the Sun and the planets, 144, 148;
of Jupiter, 248, 249;
producing precession, 498

Auriga, 414, 489

Aurora borealis, 42

Autolycus, 88

Auwers and star distances, 449;
and the irregularity in movement of Sirius, 427

Axis, Polar, 196, 497;
precession and nutation of the Earth's, 492-502

B

Backlund, and Encke's comet, 349, 351

Barnard, Professor E.E., and Saturn, 271, 278, 282;
and Titan, 294;
and the comet of 1892, 355;
and the Milky Way, 475

Beehive, the, 422

Belopolsky, M., and Binaries, 487, 488

Benares meteorite, the, 392

Bessel, and Bradley, 501;
and the distance of 61 Cygni, 446, 448, 449;
and the distances of stars, 442;
and the irregular movements of Sirius, 426;
receives gold medal of Royal Astronomical Society, 442

Betelgeuze, 209, 418, 419, 482;
value of velocity of, 484

Biela's comet, and Sir John
Herschel, 357;
and the Andromedes, 390

Binaries, spectroscopic, 487

Binocular glass, 27

Biot and the L'Aigle meteorites, 392

Bode's law, 230;
list of double stars, 435

Bond, Professor, and Saturn's satellites, 296;
and the nebula in Orion, 469;
and the third ring of Saturn, 280

Booetes, 422

Bradley, and nutation, 501;
and the aberration of light, 503;
his observations of Uranus, 312

Bredichin, Professor, and the tails of comets, 365, 366, 367

Breitenbach iron, the, 397

Bristol Channel, tides in the, 538

Bruennow, Dr., observations on the parallax of 61 Cygni, 449

_Burial of Sir John Moore_, 72

Burnham, Mr., and the orbit of Sirius, 427;
his additions to the known number of double stars, 439

Butler, Bishop, and probability, 460

Butsura meteorite, 397

C

Cadmium in the Sun, 50

Calais, tides at, 536

Calcium in the Sun, 50

Campbell, Mr., and Argus, 481;
and Mars, 223

C