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RefNoEC/1898/04
Previous numbersCert XII, 62
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TitleBrown, Ernest William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
DescriptionSupplementary certificate of a Candidate for Election
CitationProfessor in Haverford College. Ex-Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. Author of the following papers: - In the American Journal of Mathematics' - 'On the Part of the Parallactic Inequalities in the Moon's Motion, which is a Function of the Mean Motions of the sun and Moon' (vol xiv, pp 141-160, 1892); 'The Elliptic Inequalities in the Lunnar Theory' (vol xv, pp 244-263, 321-338, 1893); 'Investigations in the Lunar Theory' (vol xvii, pp 318-358, 1895). In the 'Monthly Notices' Royal Astronomical Society - 'On the Determination of a Certain Class of Inequalities in the Moon's Motion' (vol lii, pp 71-80, 1891); 'Notes on Lunar Theory' (vol lii, pp 408-409, 1892; liv, p 471, 1894; lv, pp3-5, 1894); 'Note on Hansen's Lunar and Planetary Theories' (lvi, pp 52-53, 1895); 'Note on Mr Stone's paper, 'Expressions for the Elliptic Co-ordinates of a Moving Point to the Seventh Order of Small Quantities,'' 1896. In the Proceedings Cambridge Philosophical Society - 'On the Part of the Parallactic Class of Inequalities in the Moon's Motion which is a Function of the Ratio of the Mean Motions of the Sun and Moon' (vol vii, pp 220-221, 1891). Before the London Mathematical Society, November, 1896: - On 'The Application of Jacobi's Dynamical Method to the General Problem of the Three Bodies'; 'On Certain Properties of the Mean Motions, and the Secular Accelerations of the Principal Arguments used in the Lunar Theory.'
'On the Mean Motion of the Perigee and Node'; 'On the Theoretical Values of the Secular Accelerations of the Lunar Theory'; 'Note onthe Mean Motions of the Perigee and Node,' in the 'Monthly Notices,' R Astron Soc, 1897; 'Theory of the Moon, containing a New Calculation of the Co-ordinates of the Moon in Terms of the Time' (Part I-IV. Memoirs R Astron Soc, vol liii, 1897, pp 39-116).
ProposersG H Darwin; Robert S Ball; A R Forsyth; J Lamor; E W Hobson; J W L Glaisher; [E J Stone]; W H M Christie
G H Darwin; A R Forsyth; Robert S Ball; E W Hobson; J W L Glaisher; E J Routh
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