Miscellaneous papers concerning astronomical matters, including letters from H. Airy, Sir G.C. Lewis, Dr W. Whewell, W. De La Rue and A.V. Auwers. The subjects covered include ancient astronomy; a cutting on solar spots from 'The London Review', 4 May 1861, including diagrams, with related correspondence; correspondence and a circular on a set of lunar photographs; a galley proof of a meeting of the Ashmolean Society concerning Mars; diagrams of Jupiter; diagrams of Saturn; a newspaper cutting on the appearance of Saturn; a paper on parallaxes of 61 Cygni and Lalande 21258; an extract from the 'Stellar Universe' showing a table of the parallaxes of fixed stars; a paper by J. Cockle on the Indian cycles and lunar calendar; an article on the teaching of astronomy; and correspondence on other subjects relating to astronomy.