Corresponding Member: William Augustus Rogers

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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.
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Corresponding Member: Clement Henry McLeod

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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.
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Membre Correspondant: Paul-Pierre Henry

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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.
 
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Corresponding Member: William Frederick King

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KING, WILLIAM FREDERICK, surveyor, astronomer, and civil servant; b. 19 Feb. 1854 in Stowmarket, England, son of William King and Ellen Archer; m. 21 Dec. 1881 Augusta Florence Snow, daughter of John Allan Snow, in Ottawa, and they had four sons and two daughters; d. near there 23 April 1916.
 
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Corresponding Member: Agnes Mary Clerke

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Agnes Mary Clerke (10 February 1842 – 20 January 1907) was an astronomer and writer, mainly in the field of astronomy. She was born in Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, and died in London.
 
Agnes Clerke was the daughter of John Willis Clerke (ca. 1814-1890) and his wife Margaret (b. ca. 1819). Her father was a judge's registrar.
 
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Corresponding Member: Mr. J. Ellard Gore

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Gore was born at Athlone on 1845, June 1. The eldest son of the Venerable John Ribton Gore, Archdeacon of Athenry. He was educated privately and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took an engineering degree in 1865, being first in his year. In 1868, he gained second place in the open competition for the Indian Public Works Department. He was posted to the Punjab, as Assistant Engineer in connection with the construction of the Sirhind Canal. His career in India was relatively short - about eleven years.
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Corresponding Member: Miss Mary Proctor

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Generations of the Proctor family have made great contributions to the popularization of astronomy.
 
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Corresponding Member: Mrs. Richard A. Proctor

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Generations of the Proctor family have made great contributions to the popularization of astronomy.

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Corresponding Member: Samuel Edward Peal

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Samuel Edward Peal passed away in Assam, India, on July 29, 1897. He was born December 31, 1834. Originally an artist, he went to India in 1862 as a tea-planter. In 1873 he discovered that tea blight was caused by an Aphis, whose life history he investigated. He did useful work in exploring the Naga Hills to show the practicability of a direct route from India to China. He completed a work on the grasses and trees of Assam, but the MS. was destroyed through the burning of his bungalow. Latterly, he gave much attention to astronomy.

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Corresponding Member: T.S.H. Shearmen

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Mr. T.S.H. Shearmen, of Brantford, Ontario was elected a corresponding member of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto on 1890-05-06. 

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