MichaelHoskin, “Astronomers at war: South v Sheepshanks”, Journal for the history of astronomy, xx (1989), 175–212.
2.
Ibid., ref. 33.
3.
JamesSouth, “Observations … of 458 double and triple stars”, Philosophical transactions, cxvi (1826), 1–391, p. 4.
4.
In the Maclear-Mann papers in the Cape Archives.
5.
BennettJ. A., Church, State and astronomy in Ireland (Armagh, 1990), 86–87.
6.
Ibid., 87.
7.
Ibid., 104.
8.
Ibid., 92–98.
9.
Ibid., 97.
10.
MitchelF. A., Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, astronomer and general: A biographical narrative (Boston and New York, 1887), chap. 15, “Camden Hill”, 105–13.
11.
On this see KingHenry C., The history of the telescope (London, 1955), 248.
12.
Mitchel, Mitchel, 105.
13.
Ibid., 107.
14.
Hoskin, “Astronomers at war”, 198.
15.
Mitchel, Mitchel, 111.
16.
Rosse Archives, A5.
17.
Hoskin, “Astronomers at war”, 200–3.
18.
In his article in our February issue, SmithRobert W., “A national observatory transformed: Greenwich in the nineteenth century”, Journal for the history of astronomy, xxii (1991), 5–20, p. 13.
19.
AiryG. B., 21 July 1846, to The Athenaeum, printed in the issue of 25 July 1846 under the heading “Greenwich Observatory”, 760–2, p. 761.
20.
Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives, Cambridge University, RGO6 2/272ff.
21.
Ibid., 2/251.
22.
Ibid., 2/261, letter of 2 March 1847.
23.
Ibid., 2/293.
24.
Ibid., 2/296.
25.
Letter of T. R. Robinson to Earl of Rosse, 4 May 1865, Rosse Archives, A5.
