OUTLINES

OF

ASTRONOMY.

BY

SIR JOHN F. W. HERSCHEL, BART., K.H.

M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S.L. & E., HON. M.R.I.A., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., M.C.U.P.S.

HONORARY FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;

MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE;

Correspondent or Honorary Member of the Imperial, Royal, and National Academies of Sciences
Amsterdam, Berlin, Breslau, Brussels, Copenhagen, Göttingen, Haarlem, Massachusetts (U.S.),
Modena, Moscow, Naples, Pesth, Petersburg, Philadelphia (U.S.), Stockholm, Turin, Vienna, and
Washington (U.S.);

The Italian and Helvetic Societies;

The Academies, Institutes, &c. of Albany (U.S.), Bologna, Catania, Cherbourg, Dijon, Lausanne,
Nantes, Padua, Palermo, Rome, Venice, Utrecht, and Wilna;

The Philomathic Society of Paris; Asiatic Society of Bengal; South African Lit. and Phil. Society
Literary and Historical Society of Quebec; Historical Society of New York;
Batavian Society of Experimental Philosophy of Rotterdam;

Royal Med.-Chir. Soc., Inst. of Civil Engineers, Soc. of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, and
Soc. of Engineers, London;
Leeds and Manchester Literary and Philosophical Societies; Geographical Society of Berlin:
Astronomical and Meteorological Society of British Guiana;
&c. &c. &c.

NEW EDITION.

LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

0.12-10-30 MEW

ΤΟ

THE REV. W. RUTTER DAWES, F. R. A. S.

&c. &c. &c.

MY DEAR MR. DAWES,

In availing myself of your permission to dedicate to you an Edition of these Outlines, enriched by accounts of several of your own recent discoveries, I should ill acquit myself to my own feelings if I did not add to the expression of that grateful sense of your many and important services to our common Science, which every astronomer must acknowledge, that of affectionate esteem and regard, the natural result of a prolonged and most friendly intercourse. Believe me,

Very truly yours,

Collingwood, Feb. 15. 1859.

J. F. W. HERSCHEL.