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Edmund Neison FRS[1] FRAS[2] (27 August 1849 – 14 January 1940[2]), whose real name was Edmund Neville Nevill, wrote a key text in selenography called The Moon and the Condition and Configuration of its Surface in 1876 and later set up the Natal Observatory in Durban, Natal Province. He also wrote a popular book on astronomy some years after immigrating to Durban.[3]

  1. ^ Jones, H. S. (1941). "E. N. Nevill. 1849–1940". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (9): 345–353. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0006. S2CID 202575198.
  2. ^ a b Spencer Jones, H. (1941). "Obituary Notices: Fellows:- Nevill, Edmund Neville". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 101 (3): 137–139. Bibcode:1941MNRAS.101..137.. doi:10.1093/mnras/101.3.115.
  3. ^ "Mr. E. N. Nevill, F.R.S". Nature. 145 (3670): 339–340. 1940. Bibcode:1940Natur.145..339.. doi:10.1038/145339a0.

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