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1875. [PERIODICALS - ASTRONOMY]. MEMOIRS OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY VOL. XLII 1873-1875. London: Published by the Society, 1875. 152 pp. + 2 pp. engravings after photographs. 4to., paer-covered boards. Boards age-toned, split at spine (as is text), edgeworn with light soil to paper. Block split at pp. 35 with one loose signature. Engravings (four images of the Dodabetta, India solar eclipse) have left slight offset to facing pages. Includes papers by E. J. Stone: The total Eclipse of the Sun, 1874, April 16, and Proper Motions of 406 Southern Stars; Lt.-Col. J. F. Tennant: Report on Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun on December 11-12, 1871, made by order of the Government of India, at Dodabetta, near Ootacamund; J. M. Wilson and G. M. Seabroke: Catalogue of Micrometrical Measurements of Double Stars, made at the Temple Observatory; and by Joseph Gledhill: Measures of 484 Double Stars, made at Mr. Edward Crossley's Observatory, Bermerside, Halifax.

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