Stone, Edward James

The following data is extracted from Stone Family History.

EDWARD JAMES: (1831-1897); astronomer; born in London of a Devonshire family; appointed chief assistant at the Royal Observatory in 1860, and devoted ten laborious years to the improvement of the fundamental constants of astronomy; in 1870 became royal astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope. There his energies were mainly devoted to the preparation of the Cape catalog of 12,441 stars for the epoch of 1880, the merit of which was acknowledged by the bestowal of the Lalande prize of the French Academy. A series of magnetic observations made by him on the total solar eclipse of 1874 was printed by the Royal Society. In 1879 he returned to England to the post of Radcliffe observer at Oxford; was a fellow of the Royal Society and presided for two years over the Royal Astronomical Society.

Source: Stone Family History

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