Mimas,88,89Minor planets,chap. vii.Mira Ceti,178,186,272,273Mitchell,4Mithridates,111Mitra,145Molyneux,80Monck,156,181Monoceros,298Montanari,170,171Montigny,34Moon, light of,1,51"as seen through a telescope,50“Moon maiden,”52Moon mountains,58Morehouse,103,110Motions of stars in line of sight,141,142Moulton,133,318Mountains, lunar,58Müller,174Musca,305Mycerinus, Pyramid of,353NNasmyth,11Nath,253Nautical Almanac,349Nebula in Andromeda,198-206,231Nebulæ, gaseous,195-198,212,213Nebulæ, spiral,213Nebular hypothesis,354Nemælian lion,259Nemæus,259Neon in sun,4Nepthys,271Neptune,341Newcomb,13,15,33,50,65,70,129,130,153,191,203,282,339,347,349,350,355Newton,15,351Nicephorus,127Nicholls,148,154Nineveh tablets,17Noble,25Norma,302Novæ,180-182,265,267,343Nova Persei,190November transits of Mercury,15Number of nebulæ,191"of stars,135,136,236,237"of variable stars,182,183OObliquity of ecliptic,47Occupations,14,15,54,67,80,84,85,259,340,341Octans,303Odling,122Oeltzen,72Olbers,104,124Old,340Orion,49,146,273,274Osiris,145,259,261,283“Ostriches,”266Otawa,240Ovid,242,250,255,265,288,291,322PPalisa,71Palmer,182Parker,19Parkhurst,174Paschen,2Pastorff,25Pavo,307Payne,139Pearson,77Peary,119Peck,176Pegasus,248Pelion,282Peritheus,258Perrine,15,76,191,192,214Perrotin,351Perseus,244Petosiris,222Philostratus,334Phlegon,332Phœbe,90Phœnix,301Phosphorus,17Photographic nebula,192Pickering, E. C.,125,140,144,177Pickering, W. H.,1,12,51,61,95,102Pictor,304Pierce,228“Pilgrim Star,”180,185,186Pingré,54Pinzon,294Pisces,271Piscis Australis,295,296Planetary nebulæ,213Platina,107Pleiades,19,52,137,154,157,235,254-257Pliny,17,265,280Plummer, W. E.,180Plurality of worlds,328,356,357Pococke,271Pogson,317Polarization of moon’s surface,52Polarization on Mars,61Pole of cold,33"star,138,239,240Pollux,257Polydectus,244Poor,15(footnote)Poynting,130Præsape,259Prince,25Proclus,221Proctor,7,49,59,123,285,308,323,352Procyon,156,157,236,284Ptolemy,189,221-223,224,227,230,231,234,238,244,252,253,260,263,264,267,269,275,278,281,284,293,302,330Pyramid, Great,46,47,308,353Pytheas,46QQuadruple system,168Quénisset,21,133RRabourdin,103Radium,7,8,38Râhu,93Rama,284,340Rational Almanac,46“Red Bird,”290Red star,279,292Regulus,30,156,235,236,260,310,340Remote galaxies,193,204,205Reticulum,304Rhea,89Rheita, De,144Riccioli,189Ricco,32Rigel,156,157,222Rigge,107Ring nebula in Lyra,211Rings of Saturn,85Rishis,240Ritter,76,147“Rivers, celestial,”308Roberts, Dr. A. W.,172,173Roberts, Dr. I.,95,154,200,201,203,317Roberts, C.,84Robigalia,280Robinson,342,357Rœdeckœr,28Rogovsky,42,43,44,75Rosse, Lord,76Roszel,70Rotation of Mercury,16"of Uranus,91"of Venus,22Rubáiyát,127Rudaux,80,89Russell, H. C.,21Russell, H. N.,146Russell, J. C.,333Rutherford,38SSadler,78,299Safarik,24,25Sagittarius,265-267Sahu,274Santini,357Satellite, eighth, of Jupiter,82"possible lunar,54"of Venus,28,29Sawyer,186Sayce,218,261Scaliger,299Schaeberle,93Schaer,88Scheiner,4,150,188,195Scheuter,30Schiaparelli,22,326Schjellerup,226,228,230,231,264,277,281,340Schlesinger,183Schönfeld,287Schiraz,47Schmidt,51,188,220,271Scholl,79Schröter,13,20,21,22,24,26,48Schuster,2,148,149,150Schwabe,5Scorpio,263-265Sculptor,301Scutum,299Searle,132“Secondary light” of Venus,23-28See, Dr.,12,13,33,58,96,161,164,165,210,211,281,282,354Seeliger,181,206Seneca,218,220Serapis,145Sestini,190“Seven Perfect Ones,”256Sextans,298Shaler,48Sharpe,357Shelley,356Shicor,274“Ship,”285“Sickle,”259Signalling to Mars,65Sihor,280Silkit,264Silvestria,124Simeon of Durham,53Simonides,255“Singing Maidens,”256Sirius,138,156,157,160,163,236,274,280,282,283Slipher,60,87,161,178Smart,109Smyth, Admiral,12,72,77,107,136,140,145,170,176,190,194,253,259,351Snyder, Carl,8,345Sobieski,299Sola, Comas,81,87Somerville, Mrs.,357Sothis,286Southern Cross,293,344Spectra of double stars,162Spectrum of gaseous nebulæ,195-198,212Spectrum of sun’s chromosphere,4Spencer, Herbert,193Sphinx,261Spica,156,236Spiral nebulæ,213Star magnitudes,311“Star of Bethlehem,”17,18Stars in daytime,158Stebbins,51Stockwell,18,331“Stones from heaven,”125,126Stoney,133Strabo,127Stratonoff,151,320,321Stromgen,88Strutt,7Struve,113,240Struyck,54Succulæ,253Suhail,283,286Sun darkenings,5,335,336Sun’s heat,7Sunlight,1,2Sun-spots,5,6Swift,102Sydera Austricea,5TTacchini,22Tamerlane,238Tammuz,261Tardé,4Taurus,251Taylor,40T Coronæ,184Tebbutt,183,278Telescopium,302Temporary stars,180-182,265,267,