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A learned discussion by Dr. T. J. J. See, moreover, enforces the belief that Sirius was absolutely red eighteen hundred years ago. Roy. Trans., vol. cxci. Astr. Pac. Roy. Roy. Trans., vol. cliv., p. 413. Roy. Roy. Roy. Trans., vol. cxci. Roy. Jour., vol. xi., p. 262; Proc. Roy. Amer. Roy. Jour. of Sc., vol. xxxix., p. 46; Vogel, Astr. Nach. Micrometrical measures are always thus executed.
They are, perhaps, survivals of an earlier, and by us scarcely and dimly conceivable state of things, when the swirling chaos from which sun and planets were, by a supreme edict, to emerge, had not as yet separately begun to be. Astr., t. iii., p. 598. Jour. of Sc., vol. xxxii. Jour., vol. xiii., p. 344. Cf. Soc.
These are the H and K of prominences. Preuss. Roy. Roy. Mag., vol. xvi. It is obtained by the interference of rays, in the manner first exemplified by Fraunhofer, and affords the only unvarying standard for measurement. A. L. Cortie, Astr. and Astrophysics, vol. xi., p. 401. Jour. of Science, vol. xli., p. 243. Jour, of Science, vol. xiv., p. 89; Nature, vol. xvi., p. 364; Month.
See Wolf, Gesch. d. Monat. In a letter to Von Zach of June 24, 1802, he speaks of Pallas as "almost incredibly small," and makes it only seventy English miles in diameter. Monat. Astr., p. 359. Prof. Challis's Report, quoted in Obituary Notice, Month. Trans., vol. i., p. 246. See H. T. Vivian, Engl.
Astr. Cél., found by Argelander to have a proper motion of 4·734", and by Winnecke a parallax of O·511". Month. [Footnote 79: Mém. Prés.
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