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Footnotes:

[1]Comptes Rendus, 1903, December 7.

[2]Nature, April 11, 1907.

[3]Astrophysical Journal, vol. 19 (1904), p. 39.

[4]Astrophysical Journal, vol. 21 (1905), p. 260.

[5]Knowledge, July, 1902, p. 132.

[6]Nature, April 30, 1903.

[7]Ibid., May 18, 1905.

[8]Ibid., May 18, 1905.

[9]Nature, June 29, 1871.

[10]Nature, October 15, 1903.

[11]The Life of the Universe(1909), vol. ii. p. 209.

[12]The World Machine, p. 234.

[13]Quoted inThe Observatory, March 1908, p. 125.

[14]The Observatory, September, 1906.

[15]Nature, March 1, 1900.

[16]Cycle of Celestial Objects, p. 96.

[17]Ast. Nach.No. 3737.

[18]Observatory, September, 1906.

[19]Nature, November 29 and December 20, 1894.

[20]Bulletin, Ast. Soc. de France, July, 1898.

[21]Observatory, vol. 8 (1885), pp. 306-7.

[22]Nature, October 30, 1902.

[23]Charles Lane Poor,The Solar System, p. 170.

[24]Smyth,Celestial Cycle, p. 60.

[25]Denning,Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings, p. 225.

[26]The Observatory, 1894, p. 395.

[27]Ast. Nach.4333, quoted inNature, July 1, 1909, p. 20.

[28]English Mechanic, July 23, 1909.

[29]Nature, December 22, 1892.

[30]Celestial Objects, vol. i. p. 52, footnote.

[31]Ibid., p. 54.

[32]Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1892, p. 618.

[33]Nature, August 7, 1879.

[34]The World of Space, p. 56.

[35]Nature, September 15, 1892.

[36]Observatory, 1880, p. 574.

[37]Knowledge, November 1, 1897, pp. 260, 261.

[38]Worlds in the Making, p. 61.

[39]Ibid., p. 48.

[40]Nature, June 1, 1876.

[41]Cel. Objects, vol. i. p. 66 (5th Edition).

[42]Celestial Objects, vol. i. p. 65 (5th Edition).

[43]Ast. Nach.No. 1863.

[44]Nature, June 1, 1876.

[45]Ibid., June 8, 1876.

[46]Nature, October 17, 1895.

[47]Ibid., July 27, 1905.

[48]Celestial Cycle, p. 107.

[49]Nature, October 6, 1887.

[50]Ast. Nach., No. 4106.

[51]Copernicus, vol. ii. p. 168.

[52]Cosmos, vol. iv. p. 476, footnote.

[53]Denning,Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings, p. 153.

[54]Ibid., p. 154.

[55]Nature, July 13, 1876.

[56]P. M. Ryves inKnowledge, June 1, 1897, p. 144.

[57]Bulletin, Ast. Soc. de France, August, 1905.

[58]Nature, April 5, 1894.

[59]Nature, May 14, 1896. Some have attributed these “luminous clouds” to light reflected from the dust of the Krakatoa eruption (1883).

[60]The Observatory, 1877, p. 90.

[61]Popular Astronomy, vol. 11 (1903), p. 293.

[62]Popular Astronomy, vol. 13 (1905), p. 226.

[63]Nature, July 25, 1901 (from Flammarion).

[64]Popular Astronomy, vol. 11 (1903), p. 496.

[65]Kinetic Theories of Gravitation, Washington, 1877.

[66]The Observatory, June, 1894, p. 208.

[67]Nature, June 8, 1899.

[68]Astrophysical Journal, vol. 14 (1901), p. 238, footnote.

[69]Mars as the Abode of Life, p. 52.

[70]Second Book of the Maccabees v. 1-4 (Revised Edition).

[71]Humboldt’sCosmos, vol. i. p. 169 (Otté’s translation).

[72]Quoted by Grant inHistory of Physical Astronomy, p. 71.

[73]Ibid., pp. 100, 101.

[74]Exposition du Système du Monde, quoted by Carl Snyder inThe World Machine, p. 226.

[75]Worlds in the Making, p. 63.

[76]Cosmos, vol. i. p. 131.

[77]The Observatory, June, 1909, p. 261.

[78]Astronomical Essays, pp. 61, 62.

[79]Encyclopædia Britannica(Schiraz).

[80]Monthly Notices, R.A.S., February, 1905.

[81]Nature, March 3, 1870.

[82]Ibid., March 31, 1870, p. 557.

[83]Prof. W. H. Pickering found 12 times (see p. 1).

[84]Nature, January 30, 1908.

[85]Nature, September 5, 1901.

[86]Ibid., July 31, 1890.

[87]Nature, October 16, 1884.

[88]Nature, February 19, 1885.

[89]Nature, January 14, 1909, p. 323.

[90]Photographic Atlas of the Moon, Annals of Harvard Observatory, vol. li. pp. 14, 15.

[91]Nature, January 18, 1906.

[92]Humboldt’sCosmos, vol. iv. p. 481.

[93]Ibid., p. 482.

[94]Monthly Notices, R.A.S., June, 1895.

[95]Humboldt’sCosmos, vol. iv. p. 483 (Otté’s translation).

[96]Grant,History of Physical Astronomy, p. 229.

[97]Popular Astronomy, vol. xvii. No. 6, p. 387 (June-July, 1909).

[98]Nature, October 7, 1875.

[99]Mars as an Abode of Life(1908), p. 281.

[100]Knowledge, May 2, 1886.

[101]Nature, March 12, 1908.

[102]Bulletin, Ast. Soc. de France, April, 1899.

[103]Astronomy and Astrophysics(1894), p. 649.

[104]Nature, April 20, 1905.

[105]Astrophysical Journal, vol. 14 (1901), p. 258.

[106]Nature, August 22, 1907.

[107]Popular Astronomy, vol. 12 (1904), p. 679.

[108]Mars as an Abode of Life, p. 69.

[109]Ibid., p. 146.

[110]Worlds in the Making, p. 49.

[111]Worlds in the Making, p. 53.

[112]Denning,Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings, p. 158.

[113]Ibid., p. 166.

[114]Nature, July 13, 1876.

[115]Nature, May 2, 1907.

[116]Nature, May 30, 1907.

[117]Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, August, 1908.

[118]Monthly Notices, R.A.S., 1902, p. 291.

[119]Monthly Notices, R.A.S., February, 1902, p. 291.

[120]Nature, May 24, 1894.

[121]Ibid., February 14, 1895.

[122]Ibid., September 14, 1905.

[123]Ibid., September 21, 1905.

[124]Ibid., September 28, 1905.

[125]Ibid., July 13, 1905.

[126]Nature, November 3, 1898.

[127]Ibid., July 14, 1881, p. 235.

[128]Quoted inThe Observatory, February, 1896, p. 104, fromAst. Nach., No. 3319.

[129]Monthly Notices, R.A.S., February, 1909.

[130]Celestial Objects, vol. i. p. 163.

[131]Nature, December 29, 1898.

[132]Celestial Objects, vol. i. p. 166.

[133]Astrophysical Journal, vol. 14 (1901), pp. 248-9.

[134]Nature, August 27, 1908.

[135]Webb’sCelestial Objects, vol. i. p. 177.

[136]Ibid., vol. i. p. 187.

[137]Celestial Objects, vol. i. p. 186.

[138]Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1892, p. 87.

[139]Ibid., 1892, pp. 94-5.

[140]Observatory, December, 1891.

[141]Popular Astronomy, vol. 11 (1903), p. 574.

[142]Ibid., October, 1908.

[143]Bulletin, Ast. Soc. de France, August, 1907.

[144]Nature, August, 29 1907.

[145]Ibid., March 7, 1907.

[146]Bulletin, Ast. Soc. de France, June, 1904.

[147]The Observatory, October, 1903, p. 392.

[148]Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1894, p. 277.

[149]Nature, November 18, 1897.

[150]Journal, B.A.A., January, 1907.

[151]Journal, B.A.A., February, 1909, p. 161.

[152]Cosmos, vol. ii. p. 703.

[153]Ibid.

[154]Denning,Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings, p. 349.

[155]Cosmos, vol. iii. p. 75.

[156]Journal, B.A.A., June, 1896.

[157]Celestial Objects, vol. i. p. 191.

[158]Nature, May 30, 1901.

[159]Bulletin, Ast. Soc. de France, August, 1900.

[160]Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1892.

[161]Astrophysical Journal, January, 1908, p. 35.

[162]Nature, May 22, 1902.

[163]Ibid., July 9, 1903.

[164]Ibid., July 16, 1903.

[165]Nature, September 24, 1903.

[166]Ibid., October 8, 1903.

[167]Astrophysical Journal, vol. 26 (1907), p. 60.

[168]Nature, January 30, 1908.

[169]Ibid., October 15, 1908.

[170]Ibid., October 29, 1908.

[171]Journal, B.A.A., March, 1908, and June 22, 1908.

[172]Nature, June 25, 1903.

[173]Bulletin, Ast. Soc. de France, June, 1904.

[174]Pop. Ast., vol. 12, pp. 408-9.

[175]Nature, August 29, 1889.

[176]Astrophysical Journal, vol. 26 (1907), p. 62.

[177]Bulletin, Ast. Soc. de France, January, 1904.

[178]Humboldt’sCosmos, vol. iv. p. 532.

[179]Copernicus, vol. ii. p. 64.

[180]Knowledge, May, 1909.

[181]Journal, British Astronomical Association, January, 1909, p. 132.

[182]Ast. Nach., No. 4308.

[183]History of Physical Astronomy, p. 204.

[184]Smyth’sCelestial Cycle, pp. 210, 211.

[185]Poor,The Solar System, p. 274.

[186]Celestial Cycle, p. 246.

[187]Nature, October 2, 1879.

[188]Ibid., May 6, 1880.

[189]Ibid., February 19, 1880.

[190]Nature, September 30, 1897.

[191]Nature, August 5, 1875.

[192]Ibid., October 12, 1882, andCopernicus, vol. iii. p. 85.

[193]Nature, May 8, 1884.

[194]Ibid., June 16, 1887.

[195]Journal, B.A.A., December 13, 1901.

[196]Nature, September 20, 1900.

[197]Ast. Nach., No. 3868, andNature, March 12, 1903.

[198]Nature, November 13, 1908.

[199]Nature, December 7, 1905.

[200]Celestial Cycle, p. 259.

[201]Celestial Cycle, p. 260.

[202]Journal, B.A.A., April, 1907.

[203]Monthly Notices, R.A.S., March, 1908.

[204]Celestial Cycle, p. 231.

[205]Journal, B.A.A., July, 1908.

[206]Popular Astronomy, October, 1908.

[207]Cape Obs., p. 401.

[208]Nature, July 2, 1908.

[209]Journal, B.A.A., January 20, 1909, pp. 123-4.

[210]Chambers’Handbook of Astronomy, Catalogue of Comets.

[211]Seneca, quoted by Chambers,Handbook, vol. i. p. 554 (Fourth Edition).

[212]Ibid.

[213]Ibid.

[214]Ibid., p. 534.

[215]Ibid.

[216]Ma-tuoan-lin, quoted by Chambers,Handbook, p. 570.

[217]Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1893, p. 798.

[218]The Observatory, October, 1898.

[219]Grant’sHistory of Physical Astronomy, p. 293.

[220]Ibid., p. 294.

[221]Humboldt’sCosmos, vol. i. pp. 89, 90 (Otté’s translation).

[222]Celestial Objects, vol. i. p. 211, footnote.

[223]Denning,Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings, p. 248.

[224]Ibid., p. 248.

[225]Ibid., p. 250.

[226]Ibid., p. 231.

[227]Vol. iii. p. 106.

[228]Grant’sHistory of Physical Astronomy, p. 298.

[229]Ibid., p. 305.

[230]Humboldt’sCosmos, vol. i. p. 95.

[231]Nature, April 30, 1908.

[232]Bulletin, Ast. Soc. de France, May, 1906.

[233]Nature, November 24, 1904.

[234]Ibid., September 10, 1896.

[235]Ibid., June 29, 1893.

[236]Journal, B.A.A., May 22, 1903.

[237]Nature, December 13, 1906, p. 159.

[238]Nature, September 13, 1906.

[239]Nature, October 12, 1905, p. 596.

[240]Knowledge, January 13, 1882.

[241]Ibid., January 20, 1882.

[242]Popular Astronomy, June-July, 1908, p. 345.

[243]The Observatory, March, 1896, p. 135.

[244]The Observatory, February, 1900, pp. 106-7.

[245]Knowledge, March, 1893, p. 51.

[246]Ibid., July 3, 1885, p. 11.

[247]Cosmos, vol. i. p. 108 (Otté’s translation).

[248]Ibid., vol. i. p. 124.

[249]Ibid., vol. i. p. 119, footnote.

[250]Copernicus, vol. i. p. 72.

[251]Ibid.

[252]Astrophysical Journal, June, 1909, pp. 378-9.

[253]Knowledge, July, 1909, p. 264.

[254]Quoted by Miss Irene E. T. Warner inKnowledge, July, 1909, p. 264.

[255]The Observatory, November, 1900.

[256]Or, “Before the phantom of false morning died” (4th edition);The Observatory, September, 1905, p. 356.

[257]The Observatory, July, 1896, p. 274.

[258]Journal, B.A.A., January 24, 1906.

[259]Ast. Soc. of the Pacific, December, 1908, p. 280.

[260]Nature, November 1, 1906.

[261]Ibid., November 22, 1906, p. 93.

[262]Nature, August 30, 1906.

[263]Cosmos, vol. i. p. 131, footnote.

[264]Nature, December 16, 1875.

[265]Ibid., July 23, 1891.

[266]Bulletin, Ast. Soc. de France, April, 1903.

[267]Bulletin, Ast. Soc. de France, April, 1903.

[268]The Observatory, May, 1896. The italics are Brenner’s.

[269]Cosmos, vol. iv. p. 563.

[270]For details of this enumeration, seeAstronomical Essays, p. 222.

[271]Nature, June 11, 1908.

[272]Popular Astronomy, vol. 14 (1906), p. 510.

[273]Bedford Catalogue, p. 532.

[274]Popular Astronomy, vol. 15 (1907), p. 194.

[275]Popular Astronomy, vol. 15 (1907), p. 195.

[276]Bulletin, Ast. Soc. de France, February, 1903.

[277]Here χ is probably 17 Cygni, χ being the famous variable near it.

[278]Popular Astronomy, vol. 13 (1904), p. 509.

[279]Astrophysical Journal, December, 1895.

[280]The Observatory, July, 1895, p. 290.

[281]Celestial Cycle, p. 302.

[282]Nature, December 13, 1894.

[283]Histoire Celeste, p. 211.

[284]Nature, October, 1887.

[285]Ibid., August 29, 1889.

[286]Science Abstracts, February 25, 1908, pp. 82, 83.

[287]Bedford Catalogue, pp. 227-8.

[288]Knowledge, February 1, 1888.

[289]Celestial Cycle, p. 280.

[290]Popular Astronomy, February, 1904.

[291]Ibid., vol. 15 (1907), p. 444.

[292]Journal, B.A.A., June, 1899.

[293]Astrophysical Journal, vol. 8 (1898), p. 314.

[294]Astrophysical Journal, vol. 8, p. 213.

[295]Ibid., vol. 17, January to June, 1902.

[296]Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1894, pp. 569-70.

[297]The Study of Stellar Evolution(1908), p. 171.

[298]Astrophysical Journal, January, 1905.

[299]Journal, B.A.A., June, 1901.

[300]Ast. Soc. of the Pacific, December, 1908.

[301]The Observatory, November, 1902, p. 391.

[302]Cosmos, vol. iv. p. 567 (Otté’s translation).

[303]Journal, B.A.A., February, 1898.

[304]The Observatory, April, 1887.

[305]Evangeline, Part the Second, III.

[306]Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandy.

[307]Copernicus, vol. iii. p. 231.

[308]Ibid., p. 61.

[309]Cosmos, vol. i. p. 142.

[310]These apertures are computed from the formula, minimum visible = 9 + 5 log. aperture.

[311]Cosmos, vol. iii. p. 73.

[312]Darwin and Modern Science, p. 563.

[313]Journal, B.A.A., October, 1895.

[314]Burnham’sGeneral Catalogue of Double Stars, p. 494.

[315]Journal, B.A.A., November 18, 1896.

[316]Ibid., B.A.A., January, 1907.

[317]Studies in Astronomy, p. 185.

[318]Knowledge, June, 1891.

[319]Seen by Drs. Ludendorff and Eberhard,The Observatory, April, 1906, p. 166, quoted fromAst. Nach., No. 4067.

[320]The Observatory, January, 1907, p. 61.

[321]Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1894.

[322]Smyth’sCelestial Cycle, p. 223.

[323]Nature, February 7, 1907.

[324]Ibid., March 19, 1908.

[325]Popular Astronomy, vol. 15 (1907), p. 9.

[326]Astrophysical Journal, June, 1907, p. 330.

[327]Ibid., vol. 22, p. 172.

[328]Nature, November 18, 1886.

[329]Astrophysical Journal, vol. 17 (1903), p. 282.

[330]Astrophysical Journal, vol. 12 (1900), p. 54.

[331]Nature, March 21, 1878.

[332]Bulletin, Ast. Soc. de France, June, 1904.

[333]Journal, B.A.A., vol. 17 (1903), p. 282.

[334]Nature, June 20, 1909.

[335]The Observatory, vol. 7 (1884), p. 17.

[336]The Observatory, vol. 14 (1891), p. 69.

[337]Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1896, p. 54

[338]Nature, August 28, 1902.

[339]Astrophysical Journal, October, 1903.

[340]Nature, May 30, 1907.

[341]Popular Astronomy, February, 1909, p. 125.

[342]The Observatory, May, 1907, p. 216.

[343]Astrophysical Journal, May, 1907.

[344]Histoire de l’Astronomie Moderne, vol. i. pp. 185-6.

[345]Humboldt’sCosmos, vol. iii. p. 210 (Otté’s translation).

[346]Ibid., vol. iii. pp. 213-14.

[347]J. C. Duncan,Lick Observatory Bulletin, No. 151.

[348]Astrophysical Journal, vol. 17, p. 283.

[349]The Origin of the Stars, p. 143.

[350]Ibid., p. 135.

[351]Quoted by Ennis inThe Origin of the Stars, p. 133.

[352]Astrophysical Journal, vol. 20 (1904), p. 357.

[353]Nature, March 8, 1906.

[354]Astronomical Society of the Pacific, August, 1908.

[355]Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1894, p. 812.

[356]The Observatory, May, 1905.

[357]This is a misquotation. See myAstronomical Essays, p. 135.

[358]Nature, February 3, 1870.

[359]Bedford Catalogue, p. 14.

[360]Ibid., p. 307.

[361]Astrophysical Journal, vol. 14, p. 37.

[362]Ibid., vol. 9, p. 149.

[363]Nature, July 20, 1899.

[364]Ast. Nach., No. 3476.

[365]Astronomische Nachrichten, No. 4213.

[366]Astrophysical Journal, vol. 9, p. 149.

[367]Cape Observations, p. 61.

[368]Ibid., p. 85.

[369]Cape Observations, p. 98.

[370]Transactions, Royal Dublin Society, vol. 2.

[371]Ast. Nach., 3628, quoted inThe Observatory, April, 1900.

[372]Nature, April 8, 1909.

[373]Problems in Astrophysics, p. 477.

[374]Ibid., p. 499.

[375]Copernicus, vol. iii. p. 55.

[376]Lick Observatory Bulletin, No. 149.

[377]Ibid.

[378]Ibid.

[379]Monthly Notices, R.A.S., April, 1908, pp. 465-481.

[380]Lick Observatory Bulletin, No. 155 (February, 1909).

[381]Outlines of Astronomy, par. 870 (Edition of 1875).

[382]Georgics, i. II. 217-18.


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