Railway Comp., Gt. Northern. 380 | School, Freemasons, Females 418 Raine's Charities Gt. Western. 380 Males.. 418 Greenwich Hospital. 232 Rangers, &c.... Grey Coat, Westin... 342 341 412 Steam Vessels, List of Govmnt. 221 British and Foreign 342 Storekeeper Gen's.Department 227 340 Strangers' Friend Society..... 418 342 Sunday Schools, Society for.. 326 339 Suppression of Vice, Soc. for.. 421 City of London...... 368 Surveyors' Department (Adm.) 226 Clergymen's Orphans 325 Taxing Masters, Chancery 285 Fisheries,&c., Trustees for.... 444 Freemasons, Grand Lodge of.. 445 Signet-Office.. Sheriffs 435 434 Civil Service, Paymaster of 462 Metropolitan Court of Armagh 471 459 Newry and Mourne, exempt 473 Jurisdiction of 464 Ordnance Office 479 Peers 469 Peeress Commissioners, Ecclesiastical. 473 Physicians, College of.. of Education. 473 Police Courts 472 465 447 459 477 469 Encumbered Post-Office 470 Prerogative Court 471 Poor Law 473 Privy Council 446 Public Works, Board of 472 472 Queen's Counsel and Sergeants 467 for Trade and University 474 Manufactures Consistorial Court Courts of Law.. 472 Colleges 475 ... 471 Record Office 466 Register-Office 465 Royal Dublin Society. 469 Royal Academy of Painting 471 Royal Hibernian Mil. School 469 468 478 478 479 479 466 Sheriffs.. 470 Staff Officers, 480 Stamp-Office.. State-Officers 468 465 470 464 478 473 492 .... 484 482 Pr.Edward's Island 484 489 Honduras 486 Sierra Leone .... 495 492 St. Christopher 488 482 St. Helena 494 485 St. Lucia 487 481 St. Vincent 486 Capeof Good Hope 493 Labuan Ceylon Demerara and Es 495 Tobago 487 490 Madras 374 Trinidad 487 Malta 482 Turks and Caicos 491 481 New Brunswick.. 484 Virgin Islands.... 488 488 Van Diemen's Land 491 488 Victoria KNIGHT AND CO., 90, FLEET STREET. Price One Shilling, stitched in a wrapper; or, bound in cloth with the Companion to the Almanac, Four Shillings. LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. EXPLANATORY NOTICES. Explanation of the column headed "Thermometrical Register." THE Thermometrical Register commences with Nov. 1854, and closes with Oct. 1855, inclusive. These registers have been carefully copied from those made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and which are also deposited with the Royal Society. They show the highest and lowest ranges within each twenty-four hours, from twelve different readings. Each month is placed with its corresponding month, as affording the most ready and advantageous means of comparison, although by this arrangement the register of the last two months of 1854 follows the ten months of 1855, which are all we can give up to the day of publication. Explanation of the columns headed “Length of day,” “Day's increase or decrease,” "Day breaks," and "Twilight ends." THE column headed "Length of day" contains the number of hours and minutes between sunrise and sunset. The column headed "Day's increase" expresses the number of hours and minutes which the day has increased since the shortest day; and, where the column is headed "Day's decrease," it expresses the number of hours and minutes which the day has decreased since the longest day; for example, the length of the longest day in 1856 is put down in the column "Length of day" at 16h. 34m. ; and on the 6th of July following we find that the length of the day, or the number of hours and minutes between sunrise and sunset, is set down at 16h. 23m.; hence the day has decreased 10m. since the longest day, and, accordingly, in the column "Day's decrease," we find opposite July the 6th Oh. 11m. Equation of Time. In this Almanac the calculations are all made for mean time (given by the clock), instead of apparent time (given by the sun-dial), which latter had been used up to the year 1833. It must be obvious that, for all practical purposes, mean time is the most useful; and to obtain it from apparent time, the columns in the Almanac headed "Equation of Time" should be used. The column "Equation of Time" ought, for example, to be consulted when persons are desirous of setting their clock by a sun-dial. When clock after sun is written above the number of minutes and seconds opposite to the day, then the clock ought to be set so much slower than the sun-dial, and the contrary. Moonlight. THE Moon's age is set down in days and the nearest tenths of days from the time of change. Thus it is New Moon on the 7th of January at 11h. 17m. afternoon, and therefore at noon on the 8th she is 12h. 43m. old, which is set down as five-tenths. The fraction of the day of course continues the same throughout the lunation. LIST OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ERAS WITH THE YEAR 1856. [In those Eras which begin with the Christian year, the year alone is stated; in those which begin at a different season, the month in which the 1st of January, 1856, occurs is also given.] Correspondence 2609 Abbreviations. A.U.C. 23rd Thebet 5616 8th Pharmuti 2604 ......... 25th Cohiac A.M. Er. Nab. 2602 A. Eg. Spanish, or of the Caesars Persian Era of Yezdegird III. (Parsee account) Armenian common year.. |