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Vogel, H. W., spectrum of hydrogen, 206 _note_, 383

Vulcan, existence predicted, 248;
pseudo-discoveries, 249, 250

Wadsworth, coronal photography, 189

Ward, Nova Andromedæ, 394

Waterston, solar temperature, 218;
meteoric infalls, 311

Watson, fallacious observations of Vulcan, 181, 250;
asteroidal discoveries, 284

Webb, comet of 1861, 326

Weber, Baily's Beads, 62;
illusory transit of Vulcan, 249

Weinek, study of lunar photographs, 268

Weiss, comets and meteors, 332, 334

Wells, comet discovered by, 356

Wesley, drawings of corona, 175

Wheatstone, spectrum of electric arc, 132;
method of ascertaining light-velocity, 232

Whewell, stars and nebulæ, 422

Williams, A. Stanley, canals of Mars, 279;
markings on Jupiter, 295, 297; rotation, 296;
Nova Persei, 400

Wilsing, solar rotation from faculæ, 155;
density of the earth, 261;
system of, 61 Cygni, 419

Wilson, Alexander, perspective effects in sun-spots, 53, 154

Wilson, H. C., red spot on Jupiter, 295;
compression of Uranus, 304;
exterior nebulosities of Pleiades, 411

Wilson, W. E., solar temperature, 220, 222;
ultra-Neptunian planets, 306

Winnecke, comet discovered by, 94;
distance of the sun, 231;
Donati's comet, 324, 347

Wisniewski, last glimpse of 1811 comet, 99

Witt, discovery of Eros, 284

Wolf, C., objections to Faye's cosmogony, 315;
origin of Phobos, 321

Wolf, Max, photographic discoveries of minor planets, 283, 284;
Nova Andromedæ, 394;
Nova Aurigæ, 396;
nebula near Nova Persei, 401;
photographic nebular survey, 412;
galactic nebulosity, 425

Wolf, R., sun-spot and magnetic periodicity, 128, 162, 163;
analogy of variable stars, 128, 392;
auroræ, 129;
suspicious transits, 249

Wollaston, ratio of moonlight to sunlight, 49;
flame spectra, 131;
lines in solar spectrum, 133

Woods, coronal photography, 179, 180;
Cape Durchmusterung, 412

Wrangel, auroræ and meteors, 335

Wright, G. F., Ice Age in North America, 260

Wright, Thomas, theory of Milky Way, 14;
structure of Saturn's rings, 299

Wright, W. H., polarisation of cometary light, 355;
spectrum of nebulæ, 400

Yerkes, donation of a telescope, 433

Young, Miss Anne, nebular hypothesis, 314

Young, C. A., spectrum of sun-spots, 156;
origin, 158;
spectrum of corona, 170, 177;
detection of reversing layer, 171, 172;
prominences and chromosphere, 194-196, 200;
photograph of a prominence, 197;
spectroscopic measurement of sun's rotation, 202;
solar cyclones and explosions, 204, 205;
basic lines, 207;
spectrum of Venus, 254;
red spot on Jupiter, 294;
observations of Uranus, 303, 304;
Andromedes of 1892, 337;
spectrum of Tebbutt's comet, 355;
of Nova Andromedæ, 395

Young, Thomas, absorption spectra, 136

Zach, Baron von, promotion of astronomy, 5, 6, 28;
Baily's Beads, 62;
search for missing planet, 72;
rediscovery of Ceres, 74;
use of a heliostat, 120

Zantedeschi, lines in solar spectrum, 134;
lunar radiation, 269

Zenger, observations on Venus, 253, 255

Zenker, cometary tails, 348

Zezioli, observation of Andromedes, 334

Zodiacal light, relation to medium of space, 94;
to solar corona, 176;
meteoric constitution, 310

Zöllner, electrical theory of comets, 99, 344, 346, 347;
solar constitution, 158;
observations of prominences, 194, 196;
reversion spectroscope, 202;
solar temperature, 220;
Mercurian phases, 245;
albedo of Venus, 255;
of Jupiter, 290;
of Saturn, 303;
of Uranus, 304;
condition of Venus, 256;
of great planets, 289;
Jovian markings, 297;
ages of stars, 375;
polarising photometer, 420, 421

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