OFFORD (John Milton, F.R.M.S., b.1861, Astronomer and Microscopist, Photographer of the Moon and Stars)

Autograph Letter Signed to  Robert Morton MIDDLETON , jr., F.L.S., F.Z.S., (1846-1909, English shipbroker and botanist), thanking him for "the tickets for the Zoo ... I send you a print of one of my star photos ... as I know you have a fancy for astronomy. The region ...is about 33 degrees in diameter & the bright star Vega in Lyra", 2 facing sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 62 Gordon Road, Ealing, 15th August

Middleton was employed at one time by the Hartlepools Shipowners' Society. About 1886 he and his wife settled in South Pittsburg, Tennessee, at the foot of the Cumberland Mountains. He corresponded with many leading naturalists, collected autographs, and presented a herbarium of some 3000 American and other specimens to McGill University in December 1890, returning permanently to England in 1892. With his wife and sister he spent 1904-1907 as a missionary in Chile. Again returning, he took a house in Kew and was a Temporary Assistant at the Natural History Museum till 1909.

Item Date:  1901

Stock No:  13926      £45

             Add to Wish List     Order/Enquire