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A CORRESPONDENT at Cape Town sends us some particulars of the life and work of Mr. William Henry Finlay, formerly chief assistant in the Royal Observatory, Cape Town, who died there on December 7, 1924. Mr. Finlay was born at Liverpool on June 17, 1849, and educated at Liverpool College School. He proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating 33rd Wrangler in 1873. In the same year he was appointed first assistant at the Cape Observatory, when Mr. Stone, who succeeded Sir Thomas Maclear, was H.M. Astronomer. Mr. Stone's directorate is chiefly remarkable for the enormous amount of arrear reductions of transit observations which he accomplished, and for his well-known 1880 Cape Catalogue of Stars. In all this work Mr. Finlay took his full share.
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Mr. W. H. Finlay. Nature 115, 502–503 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115502b0
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