Edward Joseph Lowe

E. J. Lowe (from Fern Growing, 1892, Peter Boyd Collection)

Edward Joseph Lowe FRS FGS FRAS FLS (11 November 1825 – 10 March 1900) was a British botanist, meteorologist and astronomer, who published papers on a wide variety of subjects, including luminous meteors, sunspots, the zodiacal light, meteorological observations during the 1860 solar eclipse (at Fuente del Mar, near Santander), conchology, ferns, grasses and other plants.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Edward Joseph Lowe". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 61 (4). Royal Astronomical Society: 185–186. 1901. Bibcode:1901MNRAS..61R.185.. doi:10.1093/mnras/61.4.185a. (Obituary.)
  2. ^ Cox, Madeline (2004). "Edward J. Lowe and the Nottingham Observatories". The Antiquarian Astronomer. 1. Society for the History of Astronomy: 6–10. Bibcode:2004AntAs...1....6C. Retrieved 2 November 2015.