of 1886, 184;
of 1887, 185;
of 1889, 185-187;
of 1893, 187, 188;
of 1896, 188;
of 1898, 189;
of 1900, 189, 190;
of 1901, 190
Eclipses, lunar, heat-phases during, 269, 270
Eclipses, solar, importance, 59;
ancient, 60, 273;
classification, 61;
results, 192, 193
Eddie, comet of 1880, 349;
of 1882, 363
Edison, tasimeter, 177
Egoroff, telluric lines in solar spectrum, 211, 214
Elements, chemical, dissociation in sun, 206, 209, 210
Elkin, star parallaxes, 37, 416, 417;
photography of meteors, 338;
transit of great comet, 358, 360;
secondary tail, 363;
triangulation of the Pleiades, 410
Elliot, opinions regarding the sun, 57
Elvins, red spot on Jupiter, 296
Encke, star maps, 78;
calculation of short-period comet, 90;
resisting medium, 93;
distance of the sun, 230, 232;
period of Pons's comet, 365
Engelmann, rotation of Jupiter's satellites, 292
Ericsson, solar temperature, 218
Erman, meteoric rings, 330
Eros, measures of, for solar parallax, 238;
discovery, 284;
variability, 285
Ertborn, mountain in Venus, 253
Espin, spectra of variable stars, 379;
stars with banded spectra, 381;
Nova Aurigae, 397, 398
Euler, resisting medium, 93
Evershed, eclipse photographs, 189, 200
Evolution, of solar system, 308, 309, 313-316, 322;
of earth-moon system, 316-318;
of stellar systems, 420
Fabricius, David, discovery of Mira Ceti, 10
Fabricius, John, detection of sun-spots, 52
Faculae, relation to spots, 53, 155, 158;
solar rotation from, 155;
photographed, 197, 198, 377
Faye, nature of prominences, 70, 166;
discovery of a comet, 98;
cyclonic theory of sun-spots, 144, 157;
solar constitution, 150-152;
maximum of 1883, 163;
velocities in prominences, 205;
distance of the sun, 240;
planetary evolution, 314, 315, 321
Feilitsch, solar appendages, 70
Fenyi, solar observations, 184, 204
Ferrel, tidal friction, 272
Ferrer, nature of corona, 67;
prominences, 69
Fessenden, electrical theory of comets, 348
Finlay, transit of great comet, 358, 360
Fizeau, daguerrotype of the sun, 153;
Doppler's principle, 201;
velocity of light, 232
Flammarion, canals of Mars, 280;
trans-Neptunian planet, 306
Flamsteed, solar constitution, 57;
distance, 22
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