Smithsonian contributions to knowledge. Vol. 18

Author(s)

• Smithsonian Institution
• Schott, Charles A. (Charles Anthony)
• Henry, Joseph
• Harkness, William
• Ferrel, William

Bibliographic Information

Smithsonian contributions to knowledge. Vol. 18

Smithsonian Institution, 1873

Other Title

Smithsonian contributions to knowledge

Note

Missing of "Article 3. "

"Each memoir is separately paged and indexed." -- Footnote of "Table of contents"

Smithsonian Institution publication ; 222, 239, 233

This volume forms the eighteenth of a series, composed of original memoirs on different branches of knowledge, published at the expense and under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution

Contents of Works

• Article 1. Introduction. Advertisement. List of Officers of the Smithsonian Institution.
• Article 2. Tables and results of the precipitation, in rain and snow, in the United States / collected by the Smithsonian Institution, and discussed under the direction of Joseph Henry, secretary ; by Charles A. Schott
• Article 3. Memoir on the secular variations of the elements of the orbits of the eight principal planets, Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
• Article 4. Observations on terrestrial magnetism and on the deviations of the compasses / by Wm. Harkness
• Article 5. Convergeing series expressing the ratio between the diameter and the circumference of a circle / by William Ferrel

• NCID: BB01965488
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Washington [D.C.]
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, iii, 175, v, 220, 6 p., [5] leaves of plates
• Size: 33 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Precipitation (Meteorology) -- Rain and rainfall -- Snow -- United States
  • LCSH : Planets -- Orbits
  • LCSH : Geomagnetism -- Compass -- Magnetic anomalies
  • LCSH : Mathematics