FOOTNOTES:
[1] Abraham Sharp had been with Flamsteed earlier than this—in 1684 and 1685.
[2] Sir Isaac Newton.
[3] The second circle was intended for the Cape Observatory, but Pond obtained leave to retain it. In 1851 it was transferred to the Observatory of Queen's College, Belfast.
[4] Mr. Thomas Lindsay, Transactions of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto, 1899, p. 17.
[5] From Sir John Herschel's address to the British Association, September 10, 1846, thirteen days before Galle's first observation of the planet.
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