r atmospheric absorption, 221
Boulliaud, period of Mira, 10
Bouvard, tables of Uranus, 78;
Encke's comet, 90
Boys, radio-micrometer, 220;
density of the earth, 261
Bradley, discoveries of aberration and nutation, 3;
solar translation, 10;
star-distances, 10, 16;
observation
on Castor, 17;
instruments, 28, 120;
observations reduced by Bessel and Auwers, 32, 39
Brahe, Tycho, star of 1572, 24
Brandes, observations of meteors, 327, 334;
Braun, prominence photography, 197;
density of the earth, 261
Brayley, meteoric origin of planets, 311
Bredikhine, theory of cometary appendages, 100, 348;
repulsive forces, 346, 347;
chemical differences, 347, 348;
formative types, 351, 352, 355, 363, 369;
structure of chromosphere, 199;
red spot on Jupiter, 294;
Andromede meteors, 337;
stationary radiants, 341;
spectrum of Coggia's comet, 343
Bremiker, star maps, 81
Brenner, rotation of Venus, 252
Brester, _Theorie du Soleil_, 152
Brewster, diffraction theory of corona, 67;
telluric lines in solar spectrum, 134;
absorption spectra, 136
Brinkley, ostensible stellar parallaxes, 33
Brisbane, establishment of Paramatta Observatory, 6, 90
Brooks, fragment of 1882 comet, 363;
cometary discoveries, 365, 366
Bruennow, stellar parallaxes, 113, 416
Bruno, Giordano, motion of stars, 9
Buffham, rotation of Uranus, 303
Buffon, internal heat of Jupiter, 289
Bunsen, discovery of spectrum analysis, 132
Burchell, magnitude of Eta Carinae, 48
Burnham, stellar orbits, 46;
coronal photographs, 186;
measures of Nova Aurigae, 399;
of planetary nebulae, 404;
discoveries of double stars, 418, 430, 433, 435;
catalogue, 419;
system of 61 Cygni, 419
Burton, canals of Mars, 279;
rotation of Jupiter's satellites, 292
Calandrelli, stellar parallaxes, 33
Callandreau, capture theory of comets, 98
Campani, Saturn's dusky ring, 86
Campbell, Lieutenant, polarisation of corona, 170
Campbell, Professor, stellar radial velocities, 39, 406, 434;
flash spectrum, 189;
spectroscopic observations of Saturn's rings, 300;
Wolf-Rayet stars, 380;
spectroscopic binaries, 389;
Nova Aurigae, 398;
translation of solar system, 406;
stellar diffraction-spectra, 440
Canals of Mars, 278-280
Cannon, Miss A. J.
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