ctrographically discovered by
Mrs. Fleming.
1895, Dec. 28 Death of John Russell Hind.
1896 Gill's Report on the Geodetic Survey of South Africa.
1896 Appearance of Loewy's Photographic Atlas of the Moon,
part i.
1896, January Fessenden's electrostatic theory of comets.
1896 Chandler's Third Catalogue of Variable Stars.
1896 Publication of Lick Observatory Photographic Atlas
of the Moon, part i.
1896, February Effects of pressure on wave-length described by
Humphreys and Mohler.
1896, April 5 Opening of new Scottish Royal Observatory on Blackford
Hill, Edinburgh.
1896, April Pickering's photometric determinations of light curves
of variable stars.
1896 One of the stars of Castor spectroscopically resolved
into two by Belopolsky.
1896, May Third Astrographic Chart Conference at Paris.
1896, Aug. 9 Total eclipse of the sun visible in Novaya Zemlya.
Reversing layer photographed by Shackleton.
1896, Aug. 30 Death of Hubert A. Newton.
1896, Sept. 18 Death of Hippolyte Fizeau.
1896, Oct. 20 Death of F. Tisserand. Succeeded by Maurice Loewy.
1896, Nov. 13 Detection by Schaeberle of Procyon's missing satellite.
1896, Nov. 26 Death of Benjamin Apthorp Gould.
1896, November Second series of hydrogen-lines discovered by Pickering
in stellar spectra.
1896, December Zeeman's discovery of spectral modifications through
magnetic influence.
1896, December Oxygen-absorption identified in the sun by Runge and
Paschen.
1896 Study of lunar formations by Loewy and Puiseux.
1896 Mounting of the Mills spectrograph at the
Lick Observatory.
1897 Installation at Greenwich of the Thompson 26-inch
photographic refractor.
1897 Publication of Miss Maury's Discussion of the
Photographed Spectra of 681 Stars.
1897 Callandreau's researches on cometary disaggregation.
1897 Braun's determination of the earth's mean density.
1897 Tenuity of calcium vapour in chromosphere demonstrated
spectroscopically