"The news from India of the death of the Rev. Norman Russell, B.A., at Mhow, India, has been sorrowfully received. His life gave promise of much usefulness. He was born in Toronto, and studied in Toronto University and Manitoba College, where he was graduated in 1890. The same year he was sent to India as a missionary by the Central Presbyterian Church of Toronto.

"Those who take an interest in the scientific side of their profession and particularly so in studying the tides, will hear with deep regret of the death of the Lancaster Harbour Master, Captain W.N. Greenwood, F.R.G.S., who expired suddenly in Lancaster Castle Station. Captain Greenwood was an officer in the Cunard Line before taking up the harbour-mastership which he held for so very many years and, as it afforded him greater leisure, he was able to pursue his studies all the deeper.

Thomas Gwyn Empy Elger (27 October 1836 – 9 January 1897) was an English lunar mapper and the first director of the Lunar Section of the British Astronomical Association (BAA). Elger was a member of several astronomical associations, such as the Royal Astronomical Society, the short-lived Selenographical Society and the British Astronomical Association. Besides his astronomical work, he was an ardent archaeologist and founded the Bedfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club. He is remembered by the lunar crater Elger.

William Augustus Rogers, Professor of Physics and Astronomy in Colby University, Waterville, Maine, was born at Waterford, Connecticut, on November 13, 1832, and graduated at Brown University in 1857. Soon afterwards he became Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Alfred University, in the State of New York.

By 1863, the wires from the Montreal Telegraph office had been laid into the Observatory to connect it with the principal places in the United States because the President of Grand Trunk Railway had proposed that there be an observatory in Montreal, and that the University might offer a ‘sight’. All the American railways were recommending astronomical observatories to provide reliable time-keeping. Dr.

Paul-Pierre Henry (Paul Henry) (21 August 1848 – 4 January 1905) and his brother Mathieu-Prosper Henry (Prosper Henry) (10 December 1849 – 25 July 1903) were French opticians and astronomers.