William Henry Mahoney Christie
1845 - 1922
- Born
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01 October 1845
Woolwich, London, England
- Died
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22/01/1922
At sea
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 02/06/1881
- Fields of Interest
- Astronomy
- Relationships
- Son of Samuel Hunter Christie (FRS 1826); married (131 December 1881) Mary Violette, daughter of Sir Alfred Hickman
- Catalogue
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Author of
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Unpublished paper, 'Total eclipse of the Sun, 1900 May 28. Preliminary account of the observations made at Ovar, Portugal' by W H M [William Henry Mahoney] Christie and F W [Frank Watson] Dyson
Creator: William Henry Mahoney Christie, Frank Watson Dyson Reference number: AP/80/9
Referee of
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Referee's report by William Henry Mahoney Christie, on a paper 'Sun-spots and terrestrial phenomena. II. On the variations of the daily range of the magnetic declination, as recorded at the colaba observatory, Bombay' by Charles Chambers
Creator: William Henry Mahoney Christie Reference number: RR/9/6 -
Referee's report by William Henry Mahoney Christie, on a paper 'The principal cause of the large errors at present existing between the positions of the moon deduced from Hansen’s tables and observation: and the cause of an apparent increase in the secular acceleration in the moon’s mean motion required by Hansen’s tables, or of an apparent change in the time of the earth's rotation' by Edward James Stone
Creator: William Henry Mahoney Christie Reference number: RR/9/186 -
Referee's report by William Henry Mahoney Christie, on a paper 'On the variations of the mean diurnal inequality of the horizontal component of the earth’s magnetic force at Bombay, and their relations to the sun-spot period' by Frederick Chambers
Creator: William Henry Mahoney Christie Reference number: RR/9/256 -
Referee's report by William Henry Mahoney Christie, on a paper 'Report of the observations of the total solar eclipse of August 29, 1886, made at the Island of Carriacou' by Stephen Joseph Perry and Lieutenant J Masterman
Creator: William Henry Mahoney Christie Reference number: RR/10/70 -
Referee's report by William Henry Mahoney Christie, on a paper 'On a photographic method for determining variability in stars' by Isaac Roberts
Creator: William Henry Mahoney Christie Reference number: RR/10/373 -
Second referee's report by William Henry Mahoney Christie, on a paper 'On a photographic method for determining variability in stars' by Isaac Roberts
Creator: William Henry Mahoney Christie Reference number: RR/10/374