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
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