Edward James Stone
1831–97
Astronomer. BA, Cambridge, 1859. Chief assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1860. Royal astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope, 1870. Radcliffe observer at Oxford, 1879. FRS 1868.
Sources
ODNB
Record of the Royal Society of London
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Record of the Royal Society of London: The record of the Royal Society of London for the promotion of natural knowledge. 4th edition. London: Royal Society. 1940.
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