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these Reports, and they would of themselves form a large volume of about 740 pages.


The following summary of his Printed Papers shews the manner in which they were distributed:

SUMMARY OF PRINTED PAPERS BY G.B. AIRY.

Number of
Papers.

In the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 30
In the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 29
In the Proceedings of the Royal Society 9
In the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society 35
In the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 129
In the Philosophical Magazine and Journal 32
In the Athenaeum 55
In Encyclopedias, and in various Newspapers
and Transactions 58
In Official Reports, Addresses, Parliamentary Returns,
Evidence before Committees, Lectures, Letters,
Sundry Treatises, and Papers 141
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Total 518


PRINTED PAPERS BY G.B. AIRY.

Date when read or published. Title of Paper. Where published.

1822 Nov. 25 On the use of Silvered Glass for the Mirrors Camb. Phil. Soc.
of Reflecting Telescopes.

1824 Mar. 15 On the Figure assumed by a Fluid Homogeneous Camb. Phil. Soc.
Mass, whose Particles are acted
on by their mutual Attraction, and by
small extraneous Forces.

1824 May 17 On the Principles and Construction of the Camb. Phil. Soc.
Achromatic Eye-Pieces of Telescopes,
and on the Achromatism of Microscopes.

1824 Trigonometry. Encycl. Metrop.

1825 Feb. 21 On a peculiar Defect in the Eye, and a Camb. Phil. Soc.
mode of correcting it.

1825 May 2 On the Forms of the Teeth of Wheels. Camb. Phil. Soc.

1826 May 8 On Laplace's Investigation of the Attraction Camb. Phil. Soc.
of Spheroids differing little from a Sphere.

1826 June 15 On the Figure of the Earth. Phil. Trans.

1826 Nov. 26 On the Disturbances of Pendulums and Camb. Phil. Soc.
Balances, and on the Theory of
Escapements.

1827 Feb. 15 Remarks on a Correction of the Solar Phil. Trans.
Tables, required by Mr South's
observations.

1827 May 9 On some Passages in Mr Ivory's Remarks Phil. Mag.
on a Memoir by M. Poisson relating to
the Attraction of Spheroids.

1827 May 14 On the Spherical Aberration of the Camb. Phil. Soc.
May 21 Eyepieces of Telescopes.

1827 Dec. 6 On the corrections in the elements of Phil. Trans.
Delambre's Solar Tables required by the
observations made at the Royal
Observatory, Greenwich.

1828 Feb. 26 Address to the Members of the Senate, on
an Improvement in the Position of the
Plumian Professor.

1828 Nov. 24 On the Longitude of the Cambridge
Observatory. Camb. Phil. Soc.

1829 Nov. 13 On a method of determining the Mass of Astr. Soc.
the Moon from Transit Observations of (Memoirs)
Venus near her inferior conjunction.

1829 Nov. 16 On a Correction requisite to be applied Camb. Phil. Soc.
to the Length of a Pendulum consisting
of a Ball suspended by a fine Wire.

1829 Dec. 14 On certain Conditions under which a Camb. Phil. Soc.
Perpetual Motion is possible.

1830 Aug. 17 Figure of the Earth. Encycl. Metrop.

1831 Feb. 21 On the Nature of the Light in the Two Camb. Phil. Soc.
Rays produced by the Double Refraction
of Quartz.

1831 Apr. 18 Addition to the above Paper. Camb. Phil. Soc.

1831 Nov. 14 On a remarkable Modification of Newton's Camb. Phil. Soc.
Rings.

1831 Nov. 24 On an inequality of long period in the Phil. Trans.
motions of the Earth and Venus.

1832 Jan. 2 Translation of Encke's Dissertation (on
Encke's Comet) contained in Nos. 210
and 211 of the Astronomische Nachrichten.

1833 Mar. 5 On a new Analyzer, and its use in Camb. Phil. Soc.
Experiments of Polarization.

1832 Mar. 19 On the Phenomena of Newton's Rings
when formed between two transparent
Substances of different refractive Powers.

1832 May 2
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