Kimah, 255 Kimball, 51 Kimta, 255 Kirch, 23, 115 Kirkwood, 6 Kleiber, 123 Klein, 114, 183 Knobel, 238, 263 Konkoly, 183 Koran, 127, 270 Kreusler, 4 Kreutz, 101, 112 L Lacaille, 294, 301, 302 Lacerta, 300 Lagrange, 345 La Hire, 20, 21 Lalande, 143, 144, 284 Landerer, 52 Langdon, 25 Langley, Prof., 3 Laplace, 43, 44, 98, 346, 351, 354 Larkin, 65 Lassell, 77, 128 "Last in the River," 275-298 Last year of century, 37 Lau, 178, 183 Leo, 259 Leo Minor, 298 Lepus, 278, 279 Lernæan marsh, 258 Leverrier, 44, 347, 351 Lewis, 156, 162 Lewis, Sir G. C., 17 Lexell's comet, 98 Libra, 262 Life, possible, in Mars, 63-65 Light of full moon, 1, 51 Lippershey, 342 Littrow, 339 Lockyer, Sir Norman, 144, 147 Lodge, Sir Oliver, 55 Long, 343, 357 Longfellow, 156, 273 Lottin, 42 Lowell, 22, 43, 59, 61, 64, 88 Lucifer, 17 Lucretius, 320 "Luminous clouds," 33, 34 Lunar craters, 55, 56 " "mansions," 251 " mountains, 58 " theory, 56 Lunt, 179 Lupus, 294 Lyman, 25 Lynn, 37, 38, 96, 106, 179, 243, 244, 310 Lynx, 296 Lyra, 243, 244, 266 M Maclear, 77 Mädler, 20, 22 Mæstlin, 341 Magi, star of, 1, 18, 145 Magnitudes, star, 311 Maia, 19, 256 Mairan, 357 "Manger," 259 Manilius, 250, 259, 272 Marius, Simon, 82, 83, 231 Markree Castle, 3 Marmol, 76 Mars, chap. vi.; axis of 59; red colour of, 60; water vapour in, 60; clouds in, 61; "canals" in, 61 Martial, 17 Mascari, 22 Ma-tuan-lin, 186, 267 Mayer, 24 May transits of Mercury, 15 Maxwell, Clerk, 86 McHarg, 16 McKay, 286 Medusa, 244 Mee, 88 Melotte, 82 Mendelief, 212 Mensa, 304 Mercury, chap, ii., 258 Merrill, 121 Messier, 114 Meteoric stones, 119 Meteors, 33 Metius, 342 Microscopium, 302 Milky Way, 320, 323, 325, 326, 328 Milton, 263 Mimas, 88, 89 Minor planets, chap. vii. Mira Ceti, 178, 186, 272, 273 Mitchell, 4 Mithridates, 111 Mitra, 145 Molyneux, 80 Monck, 156, 181 Monoceros, 298 Montanari, 170, 171 Montigny, 34 Moon, light of, 1, 51 " as seen through a telescope, 50 "Moon maiden," 52 Moon mountains, 58 Morehouse, 103, 110 Motions of stars in line of sight, 141, 142 Moulton, 133, 318 Mountains, lunar, 58 Müller, 174 Musca, 305 Mycerinus, Pyramid of, 353 N Nasmyth, 11 Nath, 253 Nautical Almanac, 349 Nebula in Andromeda, 198-206, 231 Nebulæ, gaseous, 195-198, 212, 213 Nebulæ, spiral, 213 Nebular hypothesis, 354 Nemælian lion, 259 Nemæus, 259 Neon in sun, 4 Nepthys, 271 Neptune, 341 Newcomb, 13, 15, 33, 50, 65, 70, 129, 130, 153, 191, 203, 282, 339, 347, 349, 350, 355 Newton, 15, 351 Nicephorus, 127 Nicholls, 148, 154 Nineveh tablets, 17 Noble, 25 Norma, 302