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  • Moon, "First Men in," 3
  • Mountains in Moon, 184–187
  • Mount Whitney, 69, 70
  • Mount Wilson, 69, 97-99, 120–124, 221
  • Motor-car, 271
  • Murray, Sir James, 71
  • Nasmyth, James, 213, 218
  • Nasmyth and Carpenter, 185
  • Nautical Almanac, 186
  • Nebula in Cygnus, 256
  • Nebula, Great, in Andromeda, 113–115
  • Nebula round Nova Persei, 297
  • Nebula, Split.in Andromeda, 255
  • Nelson, Horatio, 62
  • Neon, 79
  • Neptune, 160–164, 180, 295
  • Newton, Sir Isaac, 12, 20–29, 34–37, 153, 278
  • New Zealand, Solar Observatory, 231
  • Nicholson, S. B., 180, 181
  • Nile floods, 142
  • Normans, 40
  • North Pole, 34
  • Nova Persei, 296–298
  • Object glass, 123
  • Obscuring patches, 252–257
  • Oil in alcohol and water, 174–175
  • Origin of planets, 170
  • Oxford, 27, 37, 65,71, 268, 292
  • Oxford Radcliffe Observatory, 183
  • Oxford University Observatory, 119
  • Pallas, 155
  • Pan, Peter, 31
  • Parabola, 35-38
  • Parallax (see distance)
  • Paris Observatory, 164
  • Parsons, Hon. C. A., 83, 96
  • Pasadena, 99, 127
  • Patience (operetta), 220
  • Pearson's Magazine, 47, 48
  • Pendulum, 29–31, 43, 44, 285, 290, 295
  • Perrine, C. D., 180, 181
  • Perturbations, 158–164, 202
  • Petrograd, 107
  • Phoebe, 177–182
  • Photography of Stars, 117, 118
  • Piazzi, 152, 154, 178
  • Pickering, W. H., 178
  • Pisa, 7–9, 26, 43
  • Pleiades, movements of, 279
  • Plumb-line, 33
  • Polarization of Corona, 244–248
  • Poles of Mars, 139, 145
  • Police, Astronomical, 152, 156
  • Pressure of Air, 64–71
  • Prism, 101, 129
  • Proctor, R. A., 280, 281
  • Prominences, 216, 217
  • Ptolemy, 267
  • Pulkovo, 107
  • Punch, 133
  • Puppets, 260, 261
  • Radium, 210, 211
  • Ramsay, Sir W., 79
  • Range-finder, 55
  • Rapid Stars, distances of, 269
  • Rayleigh, Lord, 72, 78
  • Reed, E. J., 133
  • Refraction, 99–102
  • Repsolds, 107
  • Retrograde Satellites, 180–182
  • Ribbons, coloured, 130
  • Riffelberg, 88
  • Roemer, O., 168, 169
  • Rosse, Lord, 96, 104, 115
  • Rotation, effects of, 170–177
  • Rotation of Earth, 29–34, 116
  • Rotation of Sun, 195–198, 228 230
  • Royal Astronomical Society, 21, 184
  • Royal Institution, 169
  • Royal Society, 26, 28
  • Russell, John, R.A., 183
  • St. Andrews, 296
  • St. John, C. E., 222, 224
  • San Francisco Earthquake, 108
  • Satellites, formation of, 175, 208