Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy

by George Biddell Airy

INDEX.

Accidents (see also Illnesses)
Accounts
Acts and Opponencies
Adams, Prof. J.C.
Adams, John Quincey
Agrarian fires
Aiken
Airy, William, father of G.B.A.
Airy, Ann, mother of G.B.A.
Airy, William, brother of G.B.A., and Basil R. Airy, his son
Airy, Arthur, brother of G.B.A.
Airy, Elizabeth, sister of G.B.A.
Airy, Richarda, wife of G.B.A.
Airy, children of G.B.A.
George Richard
Elizabeth
Arthur
Wilfrid
Hubert
Hilda
Christabel
Annot
Osmund
Allsop
Alnwick
Altazimuth instrument
Althorp, Lord
American Observatories
American method of recording Observations (see Galvanic Registration)
Ampère
Ancient eclipses
Anderson, lessee of Harton Colliery
Anemometer (see Meteorology)
Anniversary parties
Antiquarian researches and notes
Arago
Architecture (see Cathedrals, &c.)
Astronomical Society (see Royal Astr. Soc.)
Astronomische Gesellschaft
Athenaeum newspaper
Athenaeum Club
Atkinson, Senior Wrangler 1821
Atlantic cable
Atmospheric railway (see Railways)
Auckland, Lord
Aurora Borealis
Australian Observatories (see also Observatories)
Auwers, Dr
Babbage, Charles
Baily, Francis
Bakhuysen, of Leyden
Balance (Public Balance)
Baldock, Commander
Baldrey, assistant
Banks, optician
Baring, Sir T.
Barlow, Prof.
Barlow, W.H.
Barnard, Proctor
Barnes, Miss
Barnes, Gorell
Barometers
Barry, Sir C.
Barton, Bernard
Baxter, secretary to the Admiralty
Beacons, floating
Beaufort, Captain
Beaumont's Observatory
Bedingfield, pupil
Bell Scholarships (see Examinations)
Bessell, astronomer
Biddell, Arthur, uncle of G.B.A.
Biddell, George, uncle of G.B.A.
Biddell, William, uncle of G.B.A.
Biddell, George Arthur, son of Arthur Biddell
Biographical notes
Bissett, pupil
Blackwood, Captain
Blakesley, Canon
Blasting
Bliss's observations
Blomfield, G.B., pupil
Bloomfield, Lord
Board of Longitude
Boileau
Bond, G.P.
Books, written by G.B.A., Appendix
Book Society, Cambr.
Bosanquet
Bouch, T. Civ. Eng.
Boundary of Canada (see Canada)
Bouvard, E.
Bowstead
Bradley's observations
Brazil, Emperor of
Breakwaters (see Harbours)
Breen, assistant
Brewster, Sir D.
Bridges
Brinkley, Dr
Bristow, Miss
Britannia Bridge (see Bridges)
Brooke, Charles
British Association
Brougham, Lord
Browne, G.A.
Brunel, Civ. Eng.
Buck
Buckland, Dr
Buckle, pupil
Burgoyne, Sir J.
Burlington, Lord
Burton
Busts (see Portraits)
Calculating machines
Calvert
Cambridge Observatory:
Assistants
Instruments
Printed observations
General
Cambridge University
Cambridge Observatory, U.S.A.
Canada boundary
Cankrein, pupil
Canning, Lord
Cape of Good Hope, Observatory and Survey
Carpenter, assistant
Cartmell, Dr
Case
Catalogues of stars (see Stars)
Cathedrals and churches
Catton
Cavendish experiment
Cayley, Prof.
Challis, Prof.
Chalmers, Dr
Cherbourg (see Harbours)
Chesil Bank
Childers
Childers, First Lord of Admiralty
Christchurch
Christie, Prof.
Christie, Astronomer Royal
Chronographic barrel (see Galvanic Registration)
Chronometers
Churches (see Cathedrals)
Church service
Cincinnati Observatory
Clarendon, Lord
Clark, Latimer
Clarkson, Thomas, and Mrs Clarkson
Cleasby, pupil
Clegg
Clinton, pupil
Clocks
Cockburn, Sir G.
Coinage (see Decimal Coinage)
Colby, Col.
Colchester
Colenso, Bishop
College Hall
Collorado, Count
Colonial Observatories (see Observatories)
Comets
Commissions
Compass corrections
Cookson, Dr
Cooper, pupil
Cooper's telescope (see Telescopes)
Copying press
Corbaux, Miss
Corryvreckan whirlpool
Courtney, Rev. J.
Cowper, First Commissioner of Works
Crawford, pupil
Criswick, assistant
Cropley,
Crosse, Rev. E.
Cubitt, Sir W.
Daguerrotypes
Dalhousie, Lord
Davy, Sir Humphrey
Davy, Dr
Daynou, Lieut.
Deal time ball
De Berg
Decimal coinage and decimal subdividing
Dee navigation (see Rivers)
Degrees (see also Orders and Elections to Societies)
Deighton, publisher
De La Rive
De La Rue
De Launay
Deluge, The
De Morgan, A.
Denison, E.B.
Denison, Sir W.
Denison, H.
Denmark, King of
Dent, clockmaker
Dent-dale
Devonshire, Duke of
Dobbs, pupil
Dobree, lecturer
Docks (see Harbours)
Dolcoath experiments
Dollond, instrument maker
Drainage
Drinkwater, Bethune
Double-image micrometer
Douglas, Sir H.
Dover (see Harbours)
Dublin professorship (see Professorships)
Dublin Observatory (see Observatories)
Duë, Baron
Dundas, Admiral
Dundonald, Lord
Dunkin, assistant
Dunlop, astronomer
Durham observatory
Earnshaw
Earth currents
Eastons, manufacturers
Eclipses (see also Ancient Eclipses)
Edinburgh Observatory
Edmonston, Dr
Education (see University Education)
Egyptian Astronomical Tablets
Elections to societies, &c. (see also Degrees and Orders)
Electricity, atmospheric
Ellenborough, Lord
Ellis, W., assistant
Elphinstone
Encke and Encke's Comet
Encyclopaedia Metropolitana
Engines (see Steam-engines)
Equatoreal, large
Estcourt, Col.
Evans, lecturer
Examinations
Exhibitions and prizes
Exodus of the Israelites
Eye, defects of
Eye, estate at
Fallows, astronomer
Faraday
Farish
Farr
Fellowship
Field
Fisher
Fishmongers' Company
Fletcher, Isaac, M.P.
Floating Island, Derwentwater
Fluid telescope, Barlow's
Foley
Forbes, Prof. J.D.
Foster, Messrs
Fox, Alfred
Freedom of the City of London
Freemantle, Sir T.
French, Dr
Friends, Personal friends at Cambridge
Fries, Prof.
Galbraith
Galle
Galvanic communication, Time-signals, Clocks, and Registration
(see also Earth currents)
Gambard
Gas Act
Gauss
Gautier
Geodesy
Geology
Geological Society
Germany
Gibson, pupil
Gilbert, Messrs
Gilbert, Davies
Gill, astronomer
Gladstone, W.E.
Glaisher, assistant
Glasgow Observatory
Gordon
Gosset
Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Gould, Dr B.A.
Goussel
Graduation of circles
Grant, of Glenmoriston
Great Circle sailing (see Navigation)
Great Eastern (see Ships)
Great Exhibition
Great Gable
Green, Commander U.S.N.
Greenwich
Greenwich Observatory, before his appointment as Astronomer Royal
Greenwich Observatory:
Appointment as Astronomer Royal, and subsequently as Visitor
Buildings and grounds in,
Instruments
Assistants
Computations
Papers and manuscripts (arrangement of)
Estimates
Printed Observations
Visitations and Reports
General
Gresswell
Groombridge's Catalogue (see Stars)
Guest, Caius College
Haarlem
Hall, Col.
Halley and Halley's Comet
Hamilton
Hamilton, Sir W.R.
Hamilton, Admiral
Hansard
Hansen, Prof.
Hansteen
Harbours
Harcourt, Rev. W. Vernon
Hartnup, astronomer
Harton Colliery experiments
Haviland, Dr
Hawkes, Trinity College
Hebrew Scriptures
Heliograph
Hencke
Henderson, astronomer
Henslow, Prof.
Herbert, G.
Hereford
Herschel, Sir John
Herschel, Miss Caroline
Herschel, Col. J.
Hervey, pupil
Higman, Tutor, Trinity College
Hilgard, U.S.A.
Himalaya Expedition
Hind, Moderator
Hind, Superintendent Nautical Almanac
Hopkins
Hovenden, pupil
Hudson
Huggins, Dr
Humboldt, Baron A.
Humphreys
Hussey, Dr
Hustler, Tutor, Trinity College
Hyde Parker, Admiral
Hygrometers
Ibbotson, pupil
Iliff
Illnesses
Inequality, Venus and Earth
Inglis, Sir R.
Institut de France
Institution of Civil Engineers
Inverness, Northern Institution of
Ipswich Lectures
Ireland, notes of
Ivory
Jackson
Jackson, John
James, Sir H.
Janus (see Steam-engines)
Jarrow (see Harbours)
Jeffries
Jerrard, Dr
Jervis, Major
Jeune, Dr, V.C. of Oxford
Johnson, Capt.
Johnson, astronomer
Jones, instrument-makers
Jones, R.
Journeys:
Scotland and Cumberland; Swansea;
Derbyshire, &c.; Wales; Keswick, &c.; Cornwall,
&c.; Orléans; Lake District, &c.; Continent,
Observatories, &c.; Cornwall, &c.; Derbyshire; Oxford
&c.; Cumberland; Ireland; Scotland; Derbyshire, &c.;
Cumberland, &c.; Ireland; Kent; S. Wales;
Luddington and Yorkshire; Border of Scotland;
S. Wales; Cumberland and Yorkshire; South of Ireland;
Ireland; France; Cornwall; Germany; Petersburg, &c.;
Ireland; Shetland; Scotland;
Sweden; Madeira; Cumberland; Cumberland; Oban, &c.; Italy and
Sicily; West Highlands; Switzerland; Central France; Spain
(eclipse); Cumberland; West Highlands;
West Highlands; Cumberland; Norway; Cumberland; Switzerland;
Cumberland; Cumberland; Cumberland; Scotland; Scotland; N.
of Scotland; Ireland; Scotland, &c.;
Cumberland; Cumberland;
Cumberland; Cumberland; S. Wales; Cumberland 358; Cumberland
Julius Caesar, landing of
Jupiter (see Planets)
Keeling
Kennedy
King, Joshua
Kingstown
Knight, publisher
Knighthood, offers of
Lagarde
Laing
Landman, Engineer
Langton
Lardner, Dr
Lassell, and Lassell's telescope
Latitude determinations
Lax, Prof.
Lectures:
College
Professorial
Miscellaneous
Lefevre, J.G.S.
Leitch, Dr
Le Verrier
Lewis, H.
Lewis, Sir G.C.
Lightfoot, Rev. Dr
Lighthouses
Lightning
Lillingstone
Lindsay, Lord
Listing, Prof.
Liverpool Observatory
Livingstone, Dr
Lloyd, Dr
Lloyd, Prof.
Lockyer
Lodge
London University
London, Freedom of the City
Long vacations, with pupils
Longitude determinations
Longitude, Board of (see Board of Longitude)
Lowe, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lubbock, Sir John
Lucas (computer)
Lucasian Professorship (see Professorships)
Lunar Reductions
Lunar Theory and Tables (see also Numerical Lunar Theory)
Lyndhurst, Lord
Lyons, Sir E.
Macaulay, T.B.
Macdonnell, Dr
Maclean, of Loch Buy
Maclear, Astronomer
Madras Observatory 101
Magnetic Observatory and Magnetism
(see also Meteorology, Compass corrections, and Earth currents)
Main, Robert
Maine Boundary (see Canada)
Maiden, Prof.
Malkin
Malta
Man-Engines (see Mines)
Manuscripts (see Papers)
Mars (see Planets)
Marshman, pupil
Marth, A.
Martin, Trin. Coll.
Maskelyne, astronomer
Mason
Mathematical Investigations (see also Appendix "Printed Papers")
Mathematical Tracts
Mathematical subjects in
Maudslays and Field
May, Ransomes and May
Medals
Melbourne University
Melville, Lord
Mercury (see Planets)
Merivale, Dr
Meteorology
Meteors
Middleton, Sir W.
Milaud
Military researches
Miller, Prof.
Mines
Minto, Lord
Mitchell, astronomer
Mitchell Miss
Molesworth, Sir W.
Monteagle, Lord
Monument in Playford church
Moon:
Observations of
Theory and Tables of (see Lunar Theory and Tables)
Reductions of Observations of (see Lunar Reductions)
Mass of
Morpeth, Lord
Morton, Pierce, pupil
Murchison, Sir R.
Murray, publisher
Musgrave, Charles
Musgrave, T. Archbishop
Myers
Nasmyth
Nautical Almanac
Navigation
Neate, pupil
Neptune and Uranus
Newall
Newcombe, Prof.
New Forest
Northampton, Lord
Northumberland Telescope
Numerical Lunar Theory
Observatories: see American, Australian, Beaumont's,
Cambridge, Cambridge U.S.A.,
Cape of Good Hope, Cincinnati,
Colonial, Dublin, Durham,
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Greenwich,
Liverpool, Madras, Oxford, Paris,
Paramatta, Pulkowa, St Helena,
Williamstown
Occultations
O'Connell
Ogilby, pupil
Oppolzer, Prof.
Opponencies (see Acts and Opponencies)
Optics
Orders (see also Degrees and Elections to Societies)
Ouvaroff, Count
Oxford Observatory
Oxford, Miscellaneous
Packington, Sir J.
Palmerston, Lord
Papers (see Appendix "Printed Papers")
Papers, Arrangement of
Parachute, Fall of
Parallax (see Sun)
Paramatta Observatory
Parker, Charles
Parker, Vice-Chancellor
Paris, Dr
Paris Observatory
Paris Exhibition
Parliamentary Elections
Pasley
Paul
Peacock, George
Pearson, Dr
Peel, Sir Robert
Pendulum Investigations and Experiments
Penny Cyclopaedia
Pension
Pentland
Percy, Bishop
Personal sketch
Philosophical Society, Cambridge
Philpott, Dr
Photography
Piers (see Harbours)
Pinheiro, Lieut.
Pipon, Lieut.
Plana, astronomer
Planetary influences
Planetary Reductions
Planets (see also Transits of Venus)
Plantamour
Playford
Plumian Professorship (see Professorships)
Pocket-books for Observations
Pogson, astronomer
Pond, astronomer
Portlock, Capt.
Portraits, busts, &c.
Post Office, (clocks, &c.)
Post Office, stamps and envelopes
Pouillet
Prince Albert
Pritchard, Rev. C.
Prizes (see Exhibitions)
Probable errors
Professorships:
Dublin; Lucasian; Plumian
Public Schools Commission
Pulkowa Observatory
Pupils:
Bedingfield; Bissett; Blomfield;
Buckle; Cankrein; Cleasby;
Clinton; Cooper; Crawford; Dobbs;
Gibson; Guest; Hervey;
Hovenden; Ibbotson; Lewis;
Marshman; Morton; Neate;
Ogilby; Parker; Rosser;
Smith; Tinkler; Tottenham;
Turner; Wigram; Williamson
Pym, Engineer
Queen, H.M. the Queen,
Quéroualle, Mdlle de
Quetelet
Railways, near Observatory
Railway Gauge Commission
Railways, miscellaneous
Rain (see Meteorology)
Rainbows
Ransomes, also Ransomes and May 17,
Reach
Reflex zenith tube
Religious tests and views
Repsold
Rhodes
Richardson, assistant
Rigaud, Prof.
Rivers
Robinson, Dr
Robinson, Capt.
Rogers, Rev.
Rogers, school assistant
Romilly, Lord
Ronalds
Rose, Rev. H.J.
Rosse, Lord, and Rosse's Telescope
Rosser, pupil
Rothery
Rothman
Round Down Cliff, blasting of
Rouse, Rev. R.C. M.
Routh, Dr E.J.
Royal Astronomical Society (see also
Appendix "Printed Papers")
Royal Exchange clock
Royal Institution
Royal Society (see also Appendix "Printed Papers")
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Rüncker, Paramatta
Rüncker
Rundell
Rusby
Russell, Lord John
Sabine, Col.
Sadler, H.
Saint Helena Observatory
Samuda
Saturn (see Planets)
Saunders, G.W. By
Saw-mills (see Ship timbers)
Schehallien, mountain
Scholarship
Scholefield
Schumacher
Scientific Manual
Scoop-wheels
Scoresby, Dr
Scriptural Researches (see Hebrew Scriptures)
Sedgwick, Adam
Selwyn, Prof.
Senate House Examination (see also University Education)
Sewers Commission
Sheepshanks, Rev. Richard, and Miss
Sheepshanks
Sheepshanks Fund and Scholarship
Shepherd, clock-maker
Ship-timbers, Machinery for sawing,
Shirreff, Capt.
Simmons
Simms, F.W.
Simms (see Troughton and Simms)
Skeleton forms
Sly, draughtsman
Smith, Rev. R. Smith, father-in-law of G.B.A., and Mrs Smith,
Smith, the Misses Smith, sisters of
Richarda Airy, Susanna;
Elizabeth; Georgiana;
Florence; Caroline
Smith, Archibald
Smith, M., pupil
Smith's Prizes
Smyth, Capt. W.H.
Smyth, Piazzi
Societies, &c., Elections to (see Elections)
Solar Eclipses (see Eclipses)
Solar Inequality (see Sun)
Solar System (see Sun)
Solar Tables (see Sun)
South, Sir James
South's Telescope
South-Eastern Railway
Southampton
Southey (Poet)
Spectroscopy
Spottiswoode
Spring-Rice, Lord Monteagle
Standards of Length and Weight, and
Standards Commission
Stars
Start Point
Steam-engines
Stephenson, George
Stephenson, Robert
Steventon
Stewart, Prof. Balfour
Stjerneld, Baron
Stokes, Prof.
Stone, Astronomer
Stratford, Lieut.
Stroganoff, Count
Strutt, Lord Belper
Strutt, Jedediah
Struve, Otto
Stuart, Prof. J.
Sun:
Miscellaneous
Parallax of (see also Transits of Venus)
Eclipses of (see Eclipses)
Inequality, Venus and Earth
Tables of
Surveys (see Trigonometrical Surveys)
Sussex, Duke of,
Sutcliffe
Sutcliffe, Miss
Sydney University
Sylvester
Sweden, King of
Tate
Taylor, architect
Taylor, First Assistant to Pond,
Taylor, H.
Telegraphs (see Galvanic communications)
Telescopes (see also Cambridge Observatory Instruments,
and Greenwich Observatory Instruments)
Teneriffe Experiment
Thames, the River,
Theology (see also Hebrew Scriptures and Colenso)
Thermometers
Thermo-multiplier
Thirlwall, Bishop
Thomas, assistant
Thompson, Master Trin. Coll.
Thomson, Sir W.
Tidal Harbour Commission
Tides,
Time-signals and Time (see also Galvanic communication, &c.)
Time balls (see Time signals)
Tinkler, pupil
Tottenham, pupil
Traill, Dr
Transit Circle,
Transits of Venus
Trigonometrical Survey
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity House Tripos Examination (see Senate-House Examination)
Troughton and Simms
Tulley, optician
Tupman, Capt
Turner, pupil
Turton, Prof.
Tutorship
Ulrich, J.G.
Universities (see Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh, London, Melbourne,
Oxford, Sydney)
University Education (see also Smith's Prizes and Senate-House Examination)
University Press,
Uranus (see Neptune)
Valencia (see also Longitude Determinations)
Venus (see Planets, and Transits of Venus)
Venus and Earth inequality (see Inequality)
Vernon Harcourt (see Harcourt)
Vetch, Capt.
Vibrations of ground
Vignoles, C.B., engineer
Vulliamy, clockmaker
Wales, Prince of
Walker, Byatt
Walker, James, engineer
Walker, Sydney,
Warburton, H.
Washington, Capt.
Water telescope (see also Fluid telescope)
Watson
Waves (see Tides)
Webster, M.P. for Aberdeen
Western
Westminster clock (see also Clocks)
Wexford harbour (see Harbours)
Wheatstone
Whewell, William
White House, the,
Wigram, pupil
Williams, John
Williamson, pupil
Williamstown Observatory
Wilson, Prof.
Winchester
Winds (see Meteorology)
Winning
Wood, Sir Charles
Wood, Dr
Woodbridge, Suffolk
Woodhouse, Prof.
Woolwich Academy (see Examinations)
Wordsworth, Dr, Master of Trin. Coll.
Wordsworth, poet
Wrede, Baron
Wynter, Vice-Chancellor, Oxford
Yolland, Col.
York Cathedral
Young, Dr