We regret very deeply to have to announce the death of Dr. y. R. Hind, F. R. S., late superintendent of the Nautical Almanac. Dr. Hind was in his seventy third year and died at his residence at Twickenham, on Monday, 1895 Dec. 23, Those who are acquainted with the pages of this Journal fifty years since, need not to be reminded that there was then no more diligent contributor, gr one whose contributions covered a wider range of astronomical enquiry. To more modern readers he will be best known as the superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, with which work he was connected some forty years and the regularity with which it appeared and the character for accuracy which it maintained are in no small measure due to the care he bestowed upon its production.
Dr. Hind's astronomical career began at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the Magnetical and Meteorological Department, under Sir George Airy, by whom he was selected to take part in the determination of the longitude of Valentia, under the immediate superintendence of the Rev. R. Sheepshanks. Before this work was completed (r844) by the slow method of transinission of chronometers, he was appointed Director of the private Observatory of George Bishop Esq. in Regents Park, in succession to the Rev. W. K. Dawes, already famous for the care he bestowed on the measurement of double stars. Mr. Hind did