Miscellaneous papers concerning astronomical matters, including letters from Sir D. Gill and Maxwell Hall. The subjects covered include the Toulouse observations of eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, 1874-1875; observations of Mars, 1877; the Sun's parallax from observations of Mars and Juno; a supposed change in the shape of Saturn; the Gresham Lectures, 1876; Washington equatorial observations communicated to the 'Astronomische Nachrichten'; the astral origin of the Hebrew alphabet; a booklet titled 'The Astronomy of the Future' on polarity in place of gravity; a sidereal system from Maxwell Hall; and correspondence on other subjects relating to astronomy