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“ANNUAIRE DU BUREAU DES LONGITUDES.” —This extremely useful and unique Annuaire for 1891 has just been published. The astronomical information is as complete as could be desired. The tables of physical and chemical constants are of the same comprehensive character. MM. Lœwy and Schulhof give an account of the comets that appeared between 1800 and 1826, and in 1889. This list completes those given from 1882 to 1890, and forms with them a catalogue that contains references to every published comet observation made this century. A table of sixty-two double stars, of which the elements are known, is given for the first time by M. Glasenapp. Another table, constructed by M. Bossert, contains the proper motions of sixty-nine stars. M. Cornu contributes a succinct description of three types of stellar spectra, and an interesting article on the astronomical applications of Doppler's or Fizeau's principle. M. Janssen gives an account of his ascent of Mont Blanc for the purpose of studying the telluric spectrum. M. Tisserand points out the uses of the minor planets, and discusses the communications made at the International Conference on Degree Measurements, held at Freiburg on September 15, 1890. In the portion of the work devoted to terrestrial magnetism, mention is made of anomalous disturbances similar to those found by Profs. Rücker and Thorpe in England. Many other important points are brought together, and the whole stands forth as a vade mecum having no equal.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 43, 356–357 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043356a0
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