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    Feb . 15 , 1890 The Publishers' Circular ,

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    Rosenberger , the famous Professor of Astronomy at the University of Halle . At Konigshe studied under the celebrated Bessel

    I; l who berg Wt / lg made liC SIUU him his assistant UC 1 I / XAO . 1 / O . OUi On . ttbCU his JJOBOOX recom- ,, < mendation Rosenberger V-r was in 1831 appointed *¦ J .

    I to the charge of the Observatory at Halle and 1 Professor of Mathematics . During the 60 years that lie filled this position he published

    i an immense number of papers ; but his chief i work was an ' exhaustive investigation of every-! thing connected with Hal ley ' s comet ¦ ¦ its ¦ ¦ " ^ w path

    and B ^ P B ^^ B ^ ^^ ^^ rr ^^ m ^ pB ^_ motions ^^ " - ^^ ' ' ^ " ^^ ^^» ~^^ - ^^ r . ~^ ^ b * ^ F ^^ Besides ^ ^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ " ^^^^^ - ^^^^ - ^ ^ v this hh — - ^^ m w h he - ^^ -m ~ — ^^ mad ^ ^— , ^ p e most «^^ " — ^ ^— ~— I i valuable studies concerning the masses of

    Jupiter and Mercury .

    Mr. Robert W. Thom. At Govanhill, Glasgo...

    Mr . Robert W . Thom . At Govanhill , Glasgow , on January 30 ,

    Mr . Robert W . Thom , a poet of merit , passed j away . His first book , which contained a selection of verse , was published in 1840 . In

    1843 1 he married . In the following year 1 published Wiseby : a and Legend elicited of the from First Lord Irvings Jeffre ' was y a

    j JL remark able " ' * , recogni tion . — ' I bT am satisfied * ^« -a that . - V a . you are a man of real genius . In your work there is powerand power of the rarest kind . '

    In 1845 lie received , similar cordial encouragement from Wordsworth . In 1884 he issued in complete form his most ambitious work * The

    4 . ' , Epochs , ' an epic of the Fall and Redemption , written after the style of Spenser .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 15, 1890, page 179, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15021890/page/13/