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[Preliminary Observations .—My attention was directed to the above subject by-Mr. Lockyer, who, in the course of his study of the Egyptian temples and the stars which, appear to have determined their orientation, was led by a cursory examination of some of the Greek temples to think it likely that the same principle prevailed there also, and, knowing that I was in possession of some measurements which would help in the inquiry, invited me to look into the matter with him. On comparing notes, we found much to promise that a practical correspondence between the Egyptian and the Greek monuments would be found; so that it evidently became worth while to go more fully into the examination of the Greek remains. On the branch of the subject connected with Egypt Mr. Lockyer has published several articles in 'Nature;’ and in May, 1891, gave a lecture to the Society of Anti­quaries, which was held in the rooms of the Royal Society; and there is an article by him bearing on the question in the ‘ Nineteenth Century’ (July, 1892). On the Greek branch I made a preliminary statement to the same Society in February, 1892, an abstract of which was published in ‘ Nature’ on the 25th day of that month. Unknown to Mr. Lockyer until after he had been for some time engaged in this research, several articles had been contributed to the ‘Rheinisches Museum für Philologie,’ by Herr Nissen, of Bonn, following an exactly similar line of inquiry, and embracing both Egyptian and Greek monuments. In Herr Nissen’s researches there is some want of exactitude in the measurements which he has used, which interfere with the accuracy of some of the conclusions arrived at. There is, however, much of interest and value in the learning which he has brought to bear on the subject.

philosophical transactions of the royal society of london. a

XVI. On the results of an examination of the orientations of a number of Greek temples with a view to connect these angles with the amplitudes of certain stars at the time the temples were founded, and an endeavour to derive therefrom the dates of their foundation by consideration of the changes produced upon the right ascension and declination of the stars by the precession of the equinoxes