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The following summary of his Printed Papers shews the manner in which they were distributed:
SUMMARY OF PRINTED PAPERS BY G.B. AIRY.
Number of Papers.
In the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 30 In the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 29 In the Proceedings of the Royal Society 9 In the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society 35 In the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 129 In the Philosophical Magazine and Journal 32 In the Athenaeum 55 In Encyclopedias, and in various Newspapers and Transactions 58 In Official Reports, Addresses, Parliamentary Returns, Evidence before Committees, Lectures, Letters, Sundry Treatises, and Papers 141 --- Total 518
PRINTED PAPERS BY G.B. AIRY.
Date when read or published. t.i.tle of Paper. Where published.
1822 Nov. 25 On the use of Silvered Gla.s.s for the Mirrors Camb. Phil. Soc.
of Reflecting Telescopes.
1824 Mar. 15 On the Figure a.s.sumed by a Fluid h.o.m.ogeneous Camb. Phil. Soc.
Ma.s.s, whose Particles are acted on by their mutual Attraction, and by small extraneous Forces.
1824 May 17 On the Principles and Construction of the Camb. Phil. Soc.
Achromatic Eye-Pieces of Telescopes, and on the Achromatism of Microscopes.
1824 Trigonometry. Encycl. Metrop.
1825 Feb. 21 On a peculiar Defect in the Eye, and a Camb. Phil. Soc.
mode of correcting it.
1825 May 2 On the Forms of the Teeth of Wheels. Camb. Phil. Soc.
1826 May 8 On Laplace's Investigation of the Attraction Camb. Phil. Soc.
of Spheroids differing little from a Sphere.
1826 June 15 On the Figure of the Earth. Phil. Trans.
1826 Nov. 26 On the Disturbances of Pendulums and Camb. Phil. Soc.
Balances, and on the Theory of Escapements.
1827 Feb. 15 Remarks on a Correction of the Solar Phil. Trans.
Tables, required by Mr South's observations.
1827 May 9 On some Pa.s.sages in Mr Ivory's Remarks Phil. Mag.
on a Memoir by M. Poisson relating to the Attraction of Spheroids.
1827 May 14 On the Spherical Aberration of the Camb. Phil. Soc.
May 21 Eyepieces of Telescopes.
1827 Dec. 6 On the corrections in the elements of Phil. Trans.
Delambre's Solar Tables required by the observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
1828 Feb. 26 Address to the Members of the Senate, on an Improvement in the Position of the Plumian Professor.
1828 Nov. 24 On the Longitude of the Cambridge Observatory. Camb. Phil. Soc.
1829 Nov. 13 On a method of determining the Ma.s.s of Astr. Soc.
the Moon from Transit Observations of (Memoirs) Venus near her inferior conjunction.
1829 Nov. 16 On a Correction requisite to be applied Camb. Phil. Soc.
to the Length of a Pendulum consisting of a Ball suspended by a fine Wire.
1829 Dec. 14 On certain Conditions under which a Camb. Phil. Soc.
Perpetual Motion is possible.
1830 Aug. 17 Figure of the Earth. Encycl. Metrop.
1831 Feb. 21 On the Nature of the Light in the Two Camb. Phil. Soc.
Rays produced by the Double Refraction of Quartz.
1831 Apr. 18 Addition to the above Paper. Camb. Phil. Soc.
1831 Nov. 14 On a remarkable Modification of Newton's Camb. Phil. Soc.
Rings.
1831 Nov. 24 On an inequality of long period in the Phil. Trans.
motions of the Earth and Venus.
1832 Jan. 2 Translation of Encke's Dissertation (on Encke's Comet) contained in Nos. 210 and 211 of the Astronomische Nachrichten.
1833 Mar. 5 On a new a.n.a.lyzer, and its use in Camb. Phil. Soc.
Experiments of Polarization.
1832 Mar. 19 On the Phenomena of Newton's Rings when formed between two transparent Substances of different refractive Powers.
1832 May 2 Report on the Progress of Astronomy Trans Brit. a.s.s.
during the present century.
1832 Oct. Report of the Syndicate of the Cambridge Observatory.
1833 Feb. 2 Remarks on Mr Potter's Experiment on Phil. Mag.
Interference.
1833 Apr. 12 On the Ma.s.s of Jupiter, as determined R. Astr. Soc.
from the Observation of Elongations of (Memoirs) the Fourth Satellite.
1833 Syllabus of a Course of Experimental Lectures.
1833 May 7 On the Calculation of Newton's Camb. Phil. Soc.
Experiments on Diffraction.
