BEING THE ANNUAL HALF-VOLUME OF THE MEMOIRS AND PROCEEDINGS LONDON: PRINTED BY GEORGE BARCLAY, CASTLE STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE. 1858. ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. VOL. XVIII. November 13, 1857. No. I. Dr. LEE in the Chair. John Watson, Esq., Fence Houses, Durham; Edward Tyler, Esq., Church Street, Stoke Newington; Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq., Wroxhall Abbey, Warwick- Ch. Henry Weston, Esq., Sion Place, Bath, were balloted for and duly elected Fellows of the Society. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have liberally placed at the disposal of the Society, for distribution among the Fellows, a limited number of copies of Hansen's Lunar Tables, which have recently been published in this country at the public expense. Any Fellow of the Society desirous of obtaining a copy of this important work should lose no time in applying for the same at the Apartments of the Society. Abstract of Results of Measurements of Saturn's Satellites made at the Madras Observatory in 1856-7, with the Lerebours Equatoreal. Ap. 6·3 in., foc. 88.6 in., power usually employed 174. By Capt. W. S. Jacob, Director of the Madras Observatory. "These observations extend over a period from 6th November to 24th March, and number as follows: of Japetus, 58 in angle and 41 in distance; of Titan, 67 and 53; of Rhea, 49 and 25; of Dione, 42 and 12; of Tethys, 49 and 15; from these the following elements were deduced by the method of least squares: "Where is the epoch of mean longitude for Jan. o'o Green I. Lee.. Hartwell. |