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Moon and earthquakes, 165.

Moon and the weather, 164.

Moon and volcanoes, 165.

“Moon Maiden,” 10, 96, 103, 122.

Mount Hadley, 222.

New Moon, photograph of, 49.

New Moon and the weather, 169.

Newton, deepest crater on moon, 107.

Nicollet, 188.

Night, advance of, over moon, 131. length of, on moon, 95. lunar, coldness of, 136.

Nodes of moon and their revolution, 38-39.

Oceanus Procellarum, 105, 150. submerged rays in, 151.

Orbit of moon, 8.

Origin of moon, 6.

Pacific Ocean and birth of moon, 6.

Palus Somnii, 68.

Path of moon about sun, 16-17, Note.

Petavius, 62, 123.

Phases of moon explained, 13-16.

Phlægrean Fields, 60.

Photographs, lunar, 47-49. in series, 57. peculiar tone of, 145. why they are reversed, 52.

Photometry, lunar, 153-154.

Piccolomini, 72, 200.

Pickering, Prof. William H., observations of Linné by, 233. on effects of earth’s shadow on moon, 28. opinion of, regarding changes in Plato, 226. theory of Tycho’s rays by, 126.

Pico, 231.

Pitatus, 186, 195.

Plato, 105, 114, 132, 225. changes observed in, opinion of Prof. William H. Pickering regarding, 226. vegetation in, 227.

Plinius, 224.

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