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Both Colonel James and Major Rice were elected to their former positions, with the following company commanders: "J.M. Townsend Captain Company A. O.A. Watson Captain Company B. William Huggins Captain Company C. G.M. Gunnels Captain Company D. W.H. Fowler Captain Company E. D.B. Miller Captain Company F. B.M. Whitener Captain Company G.
This class of observers is particularly abundant in the London scientific world, and includes in its list such noted names as Alfred Russel Wallace, the celebrated naturalist, Dr. William Crooks, whose discoveries in chemistry and physics have been of a remarkable character, and Dr. Huggins, the equally celebrated astronomer. In America the most noted scientific observer was the late Dr.
"Peets rides herd on Huggins for about a week, an' at last effects his rescoo from that hostile jack rabbit an' them crimson rattlesnakes an' blue-winged bats that has j'ined dogs with it in its attempts ag'in Huggins. Later, when Peets sends his charges, this yere ingrate Huggins lovin' money as I states wants to squar' it with a quart or two of whiskey checks on the Bird Cage bar.
Their genuineness was shortly afterwards visually attested by Keeler, Campbell, and Dunér; but no chemical interpretation has been found for them. A fairly complete preliminary answer to the question, What are the stars made of? was given by Sir William Huggins in 1864.
This, where the supply is already to a deplorable extent niggardly, can ill be afforded; for which reason the operation of determining a star's approach or recession is, even apart from atmospheric obstacles, an excessively delicate one. It was first executed by Sir William Huggins early in 1868.
Equally indecisive information was derived from the spectroscope. To Vogel, Hasselberg, and Young, the light of the "Nova" seemed perfectly continuous; but Huggins caught traces of bright lines on September 2, confirmed on the 9th; and Copeland succeeded, on September 30, in measuring three bright bands with an acute-angled prism specially constructed for the purpose.
Dr. Huggins was also present at this experiment in a mode of motion. Him Dr. Carpenter gracefully discredited as an 'amateur, without 'a broad basis of general scientific culture'. He had devoted himself 'to a branch of research which tasks the keenest powers of observation'. Now it was precisely powers of observation that were required.
Huggins and Miller eagerly studied the star with the spectroscope, and their results were received with deepest interest. They concluded that the light of the new star had two different sources, each giving a spectrum peculiar to itself. One of the spectra had dark lines and the other bright lines. It will be remembered that a similar peculiarity was exhibited by the new star in Auriga in 1893.
Silas was a long-faced, miserable sort o' chap, always looking on the black side o' things, and shaking his 'ead over it. He thought nothing o' seeing ghosts, and pore old Ben Huggins slept on the floor for a week by reason of a ghost with its throat cut that Silas saw in his bunk. He gave Silas arf a dollar and a neck-tie to change bunks with 'im.
In his Presidential Address at the Cardiff Meeting of the British Association in 1891, Dr. Huggins adhered in the main to the line of advance traced by Vogel.
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