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Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, Volume VIII

This is Volume VIII of the Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. Part I of the Annals contains a historical account of the observatory from October, 1855 to October, 1876. Included are biographical notes on some of the astronomers whose work is detailed, as well as information on the observatory buildings, instruments, and research. Part II of the Annals contains astronomical engravings of the Moon, Planets, and Solar Phenomena.
Following are the astrological topics covered in this book.
  1. PLAN OF THE WORK
  2. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.
  3. William Cranch Bond
  4. George Phillips Bond
  5. Joseph Winlock
  6. W.C. Bond, Jr
  7. Richard F. Bond
  8. Philip Sidney Coolidge
  9. PROPERTY OF THE OBSERVATORY.
  10. Original endowment
  11. Phillips Fund
  12. Quincy Fund
  13. Sears Fund
  14. Sturgis Fund
  15. Hayward Fund
  16. Savage Fund
  17. Occasional donations
  18. Fund for Meridian Circle
  19. Income from sale of clock-signals
  20. Grounds of the Observatory
  21. Improvements in the grounds
  22. Land in West Medford
  23. Buildings of the Observatory
  24. Improvements in 1866 and later
  25. Prime Vertical Room
  26. East Transit Room
  27. West Transit Room
  28. West Dome
  29. Detached buildings
  30. Clocks
  31. Chronometers
  32. Chronographs
  33. Apparatus for determining personal equation
  34. Apparatus for shifting electric connections
  35. Apparatus for transmitting clock-signals
  36. Meridian Circle
  37. East Transit Circle
  38. Portable Transit Instrument
  39. East Equatorial
  40. Finder of the Equatorial
  41. Apparatus for finding faint objects
  42. Machinery of Dome
  43. West Equatorial
  44. Small telescopes
  45. Spectroscopes
  46. Inductive Coil
  47. Photographic lenses, and apparatus connected with them
  48. Inventions of Professor Winlock for photographing the sun
  49. Micrometers
  50. Photometer
  51. Occultator
  52. Meteorological apparatus
  53. Wind register
  54. Magnetic apparatus
  55. Phillips Library
  56. WORK OF THE OBSERVATORY.
  57. Work done between 1855 and 1866
  58. Work done in 1866 and later
  59. Observations of double stars
  60. Spectroscopic observations
  61. Observations of the aurora
  62. Miscellaneous equatorial observations
  63. Investigation of lunar phenomena
  64. Drawings of celestial objects
  65. observations of the sun
  66. Chart of the Trifid Nebula
  67. Work done with the East Transit Circle
  68. Work done with the Meridian Circle
  69. Observations for determining longitudes
  70. Magnetic and meteorological observations
  71. Observations of meteoric showers
  72. Work done with the Quincy Photometer
  73. Expeditions made by Professor Winlock
  74. His spectroscopic and photographic observations of total eclipses
  75. General account of the part taken by the Observatory in expeditions to observe eclipses
  76. Account of some engravings copied from photographs of eclipses
  77. Photographs of partial phases of eclipses
  78. Ordinary photographs of the sun
  79. Experiments in viewing the whole border of the sun
  80. Establishment of the system of clock-signals
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