BAILY, FRANCIS

(1774-1844), Eng. astronomer, pioneer of modern solar a ration of star catalogues; one of leading founders of R. Astronomical Soc.; observed and described the discontinuous beadlike effect occurring in the visible crescent of the sun at times of eclipse, called Baily’s Beads. Scot. philosopher; 6. Aberdeen; was a weaver in early life, later entered Marischal Coll.; prof. at Aberdeen and Glasgow; subsequently moved to London, and pub. The Senses and the Intellect eee The Emotions and_the Will (1859); prof. of Logic and English in —; the Univ. of Aberdeen from 1860-80. His later publications include Higher English Grammar (1863), Manual of Rhetoric (1866), Manual of Mental and Moral Science (1868).