ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 
257 
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Manners, President, 163. 
Manuscripts, 65, 83, 109, 243 n., 244. 
Markree Observatory, 189. 
Mars, solar parallax from, 194 ; drawings 
of, 197. 
Maskelyne, edits Nautical Almanac, 56. 
Mathematical Society at Spitalfields, 99- 
102, 104. 
Maule, arbitrator, 54. 
Maxwell, Clerk, in. 
Mayer, Tobias, his catalogue, 77. 
Medal, 42 ; first presented, 43 ; none for 
discovery of Neptune, 97 ; method 
of bestowing, 125; giving it to two, 
172 ; proposals to abolish, 235. 
Medical and Chirurgical Society, rooms at, 
35, 60. 
Meetings, record of first year’s, 11-13 ; 
first seven years, 39.; reports of, 134, 
238 ; hour of, 229 sqq. ; special, 238. 
Memoirs, regulations for, 36 ; early 
volumes, 37 ; in the thirties, 79 ; in 
the fifties, 126 ; how distributed, 241 ; 
appendices to, 242. 
Mercury, transit of in 1878, 197. 
Meteors, Leonids, 160 ; connected with 
comets, 161 ; observations of, 199 ; 
stationary radiants, 199. 
Middleton, founder of Mathematical 
Society, 83, 99 ; portrait of, 83. 
Miller, two of that name, 160. 
Millington, Secretary, 42. 
Minor planets, 68, 99, 115, 120, 137. 
Mitchel, O. M., on South’s telescope, 54 ; 
Associate, 105. 
Mitchell, Maria, discovers a comet, 105. 
Monthly Notices, started, 38, 41 ; in the 
thirties, 79 ; enlarged, 84 ; in the 
fifties, 127 ; in 4to, 133, 239 ; growth 
of, 188, 240 ; geophysical supple 
ment, 228 ; how edited, 239 ; takes 
place of Memoirs, 239 ; old volumes 
scarce, 80, 241. 
Moon, tables of, 148, 219. 
Moon-culminating stars, 73. 
Moore, Daniel, founder, 2, 3, 20. 
Muller, Max, on Colebrooke, 18. 
Mural Circle, favourite instrument, 72. 
Nasmyth, solar surface, 153. 
Nautical Almanac, 55 ; reform of, 56 sqq. ; 
committee on, 61 ; changes proposed 
in 1890, 216 ; Society not consulted 
in 1897,217; Part I. of, 218 ; changes 
from 1914, 218 ; suggested change in 
office, 218. 
Nebulae, J. Herschel’s observations, 74 ; 
W. Herschel’s catalogues revised, 243. 
Neison, on lunar theory, 197, 199. 
Neptune, discovery of, 92 97; attitude of 
Society to, 97. 
Newall, H. F., special address, 237. 
Newall, R. S., 25-inch telescope, 189. 
Newcomb, lunar theory, 199 ; Council 
resolution on his retiring, 219 n. ; com 
mencement of astronomical day, 225. 
Newton, H. A., on November meteors, 161. 
Observatories in southern hemisphere, 66, 
221 ; Indian Hill Observatory pro 
posed, 138 ; list of, in the sixties, 131 ; 
in the seventies, 189 ; solar observa 
tory in Australia, 222. 
Observatory, The, monthly magazine, 198, 
238. 
Observing Astronomical Society, 135. 
Oxford, Radcliffe Observatory, observing 
at, 72. 
Parallax, lunar, Henderson, 70. 
Parallax, solar, Encke’s value too small, 
149; Stone, 163 ; Gill, from Juno, 194 ; 
from Mars, 195 ; from transit of Venus, 
196 ; Maxwell Hall, from Mars, 197. 
Parallax, stellar, Henderson and Bessel, 
70, 89. 
Paramatta Observatory, 66. 
Parry, Edward, proposes additions to 
Nautical Almanac, 61. 
Parsons bequest, 246 n. 
Patron of Society, 46, 50, 81. 
Pearson, founder, 1—3, 23 ; buys object- 
glass, 16 ; earliest idea of founding 
Society, 21 ; school at East Sheen, 
24; star catalogue, 74 ; presents 
stock of his Practical Astronomy, 83. 
Peirce, Benjamin, Associate, 105. 
Pendulum observations, Foster, 68 ; 
Baily, 69 ; Airy, 117. 
Philosophical Magazine, reports of meet 
ings in, 39. 
Photographic Committee, 214. 
Photography, J. Herschel’s glass nega 
tives, 76 ; daguerreotype of eclipse 
of 1851, 112 ; photos of moon, 113 ; 
of Donati’s comet, 113 ; De la Rue’s 
work, 144, 156 ; in Transit of Venus, 
181 ; advance of stellar photography, 
213 ; photos for sale, 215. 
Photoheliograph, at Kew, 113, 155 ; at 
Greenwich, 156. 
Pond, editor of Nautical Almanac, 60 ; 
work at Greenwich, 71, 73. 
Portraits, 83, 244. 
Printing, cost of, 40. 
Pritchard, President, 159, 162. 
Prize questions, 43. 
Proctor, 167 ; on transits of Venus, 168, 
180-184 ; proposed for medal, 176 ; 
disavowed by Council, 184. 
Prominences, nature of, 164. 
Ranyard, 169 ; eclipse volume, 172 ; 
proposes to abolish medals, 235. 
Refraction, Atkinson on, 70. 
Register, The Astronomical, 134, 238. 
Relativity, discussion on, 238. 
Reports, Annual, of Council, 240; of 
meetings, 134, 238. 
Robinson, T. R., work at Armagh, 72, 73. 
Rosse, third Earl of, on South’s telescope, 
54 ; his telescopes, 77, 107, 113 ; 
fourth Earl, on moon’s heat, 189. 
Riimker, C., silver medal, 43 ; gold medal 
for star catalogue, 123. 
Rutherfurd, photography, 113, 197.