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after the publication of his great chart. He 

 died at Athens, in his fifty - ninth year, 

 February 8, 1884. 



Schmidt's announcement of the change in the 

 appearance of Linnd was followed in 1878 by 

 a statement by Hermann Joseph Klein (born 

 1842) of Cologne, to the effect that a new 

 crater had been formed to the north of the 

 well-known lunar crater, Hyginus. The change 

 in this case, however, is by no means so certain 

 as in that of Linne. It will be observed that 

 the majority of the students of the Moon 

 were Germans. In England the study was 

 not taken up until 1864, when a Lunar 

 Committee of the British Association was ap- 

 pointed. Some good lunar work was done by 

 the well-known astronomer, Thomas William 

 Webb (1807-1885), while the study was pop- 

 ularised by James Nasmyth (1808-1890), the 

 famous engineer, who published, in 1874, in 

 conjunction with James Carpenter of Greenwich 

 Observatory, a beautifully -illustrated volume 

 entitled 'The Moon/ This was succeeded, in 

 1876, by the larger work of Edmund Neison 

 (now Nevill), Government Astronomer of Natal. 

 About this time several English astronomers, 

 devoted to the study of the Moon, formed them- 

 selves into the Selenographical Society. After 



