Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . the moon s ad\ance,and is caused primarily liy theserrated nature of the moonslimb. Effects of irradiationand bad definition then com-bined to comj^licate appearanceswhich optical imj^rovcmentshave since reduced to compara-tive insignificance. Bailys vividly expressed wonder at themmay be said to have maugurated the era of eclipse-expeditions;and he hmiseltrepau-ed to Paviafor the purposeof observing thetota
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . the moon s ad\ance,and is caused primarily liy theserrated nature of the moonslimb. Effects of irradiationand bad definition then com-bined to comj^licate appearanceswhich optical imj^rovcmentshave since reduced to compara-tive insignificance. Bailys vividly expressed wonder at themmay be said to have maugurated the era of eclipse-expeditions;and he hmiseltrepau-ed to Paviafor the purposeof observing thetotality of July8th, 1842, duringwhich the coronaand )irominencesdisplayed them-selves with suchstartling splend-our as to raise theproblem of then-nature to thevery first rankamong thosepresented, atthat time, to stu-dents of the sun. Very early in its known career the new planet Uranus(discovered by William Herschel in 1781) began to give trouble. DRAWING OK NEBULA BY SIE J. HERSCHEL.(Philosophical Transactions, Royal .Society, 1S33.) BailyEBeads, 246 THE NEW SPIRIT AND THE NEW PATHS. The Planet t,, Computers of its orbit. It was hoped that Bouvards Tables,published in LS21, would set things straight, but evidence ofcontinued recalcitrance was quickly forthconnng. The idea,accordingl}, that these persistent irregularities were due to dis-turbance by an exterior body, formed itself in a few sagaciousminds; and the Rev. T. J. Hussey even contemplated, in 1834,the possibility of the position, at a given epoch, of thehypothetical planet. This arduous task Avas, indeed, far beyondhis powers ; but in 1841 John Couch Adams (1819-92), then animdergraduate of St. Johns College, Cambridge, laid his plansfor grappling with it. No sooner, in fact, had he taken hisdegree as Senior Wrangler than he proceeded to carry them intoexecution; and on October 21st, 1845, he deposited at the RojalObservatory a paper containing a complete e
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