Astronomer. Produced a map of Mars in 1867 and has a crater on Mars named after him.
PROF. PROCTOR'S DEATH.
The Noted Astronomer Dies in New York City of Yellow Fever, Contracted While on a Visit to Florida.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13 - Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, died at the Willard Parker Hospital in this city at 7:15 last evening from yellow fever. He arrived here from Oaklawn, Fla., where he has an observatory, on Monday, and was immediately prostrated with a disease which the best physicians unhesitatingly pronounced yellow fever. Other doctors doubted that the disease was really yellow fever but their doubt were removed when the patient was seized with the black vomit last evening and died from its effects. The professor had engaged passage to Europe, intending to sail next Saturday. His family are still at Oaklawn, Fla., where no cases of yellow fever have been reported.
The health officers here are confident that they can battle successfully with the disease in any event. They deny that there are any grounds for popular apprehension, even should other cases be imported from the South. Prof. Proctor's remains were placed in a metallic coffin, according to the rules of the Board of Health, so there can be no danger from burial in any cemetery. Every thing in the hotel-room where Proctor stopped has been removed - Upholstrey, carpets and bedding - and the place thoroughly cleaned and the room nailed tight.
(Richard Anthony Proctor, B.A., was born at Chelsea, Eng., March 23, 1837(?), and graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge, in ????. He was appointed a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in ???? and an honorary fellow of King's College, London, in 1873. He edited the Proceedings of the Royal Astronomical Society in ????. In ???? he created great interest by maintaining, against the almost universal opinion of astronomers, the theory of the solar corona, and also that of the inner complex solar atmosphere, both of which have since been accepted. in 1873(?) Prof. Proctor severed his connection with the Catholic church because, as he said, the theologians of the church had convinced him that the holding of certain scientific views which he believed to be correct was incompatible with loyalty to that faith. In ???? Mr. Proctor was married at St. Joseph, Mo. to a niece of General Jefferson Thompson, of Virginia.
Mr. Proctor has written much on scientific subjects and is the author of more that sixty books, mostly on astronomical subjects, the principal one being "Other Worlds Than Ours" first published in 1870, and "Transits of Venus," 1871.
Freeborn County Standard newspaper; Albert Lea, Minnesota
September 19, 1888; Page Two.
PROF. PROCTOR'S DEATH.
The Noted Astronomer Dies in New York City of Yellow Fever, Contracted While on a Visit to Florida.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13 - Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, died at the Willard Parker Hospital in this city at 7:15 last evening from yellow fever. He arrived here from Oaklawn, Fla., where he has an observatory, on Monday, and was immediately prostrated with a disease which the best physicians unhesitatingly pronounced yellow fever. Other doctors doubted that the disease was really yellow fever but their doubt were removed when the patient was seized with the black vomit last evening and died from its effects. The professor had engaged passage to Europe, intending to sail next Saturday. His family are still at Oaklawn, Fla., where no cases of yellow fever have been reported.
The health officers here are confident that they can battle successfully with the disease in any event. They deny that there are any grounds for popular apprehension, even should other cases be imported from the South. Prof. Proctor's remains were placed in a metallic coffin, according to the rules of the Board of Health, so there can be no danger from burial in any cemetery. Every thing in the hotel-room where Proctor stopped has been removed - Upholstrey, carpets and bedding - and the place thoroughly cleaned and the room nailed tight.
(Richard Anthony Proctor, B.A., was born at Chelsea, Eng., March 23, 1837(?), and graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge, in ????. He was appointed a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in ???? and an honorary fellow of King's College, London, in 1873. He edited the Proceedings of the Royal Astronomical Society in ????. In ???? he created great interest by maintaining, against the almost universal opinion of astronomers, the theory of the solar corona, and also that of the inner complex solar atmosphere, both of which have since been accepted. in 1873(?) Prof. Proctor severed his connection with the Catholic church because, as he said, the theologians of the church had convinced him that the holding of certain scientific views which he believed to be correct was incompatible with loyalty to that faith. In ???? Mr. Proctor was married at St. Joseph, Mo. to a niece of General Jefferson Thompson, of Virginia.
Mr. Proctor has written much on scientific subjects and is the author of more that sixty books, mostly on astronomical subjects, the principal one being "Other Worlds Than Ours" first published in 1870, and "Transits of Venus," 1871.
Freeborn County Standard newspaper; Albert Lea, Minnesota
September 19, 1888; Page Two.
Astronomer. Produced a map of Mars in 1867 and has a crater on Mars named after him.
PROF. PROCTOR'S DEATH.
The Noted Astronomer Dies in New York City of Yellow Fever, Contracted While on a Visit to Florida.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13 - Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, died at the Willard Parker Hospital in this city at 7:15 last evening from yellow fever. He arrived here from Oaklawn, Fla., where he has an observatory, on Monday, and was immediately prostrated with a disease which the best physicians unhesitatingly pronounced yellow fever. Other doctors doubted that the disease was really yellow fever but their doubt were removed when the patient was seized with the black vomit last evening and died from its effects. The professor had engaged passage to Europe, intending to sail next Saturday. His family are still at Oaklawn, Fla., where no cases of yellow fever have been reported.
The health officers here are confident that they can battle successfully with the disease in any event. They deny that there are any grounds for popular apprehension, even should other cases be imported from the South. Prof. Proctor's remains were placed in a metallic coffin, according to the rules of the Board of Health, so there can be no danger from burial in any cemetery. Every thing in the hotel-room where Proctor stopped has been removed - Upholstrey, carpets and bedding - and the place thoroughly cleaned and the room nailed tight.
(Richard Anthony Proctor, B.A., was born at Chelsea, Eng., March 23, 1837(?), and graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge, in ????. He was appointed a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in ???? and an honorary fellow of King's College, London, in 1873. He edited the Proceedings of the Royal Astronomical Society in ????. In ???? he created great interest by maintaining, against the almost universal opinion of astronomers, the theory of the solar corona, and also that of the inner complex solar atmosphere, both of which have since been accepted. in 1873(?) Prof. Proctor severed his connection with the Catholic church because, as he said, the theologians of the church had convinced him that the holding of certain scientific views which he believed to be correct was incompatible with loyalty to that faith. In ???? Mr. Proctor was married at St. Joseph, Mo. to a niece of General Jefferson Thompson, of Virginia.
Mr. Proctor has written much on scientific subjects and is the author of more that sixty books, mostly on astronomical subjects, the principal one being "Other Worlds Than Ours" first published in 1870, and "Transits of Venus," 1871.
Freeborn County Standard newspaper; Albert Lea, Minnesota
September 19, 1888; Page Two.
PROF. PROCTOR'S DEATH.
The Noted Astronomer Dies in New York City of Yellow Fever, Contracted While on a Visit to Florida.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13 - Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, died at the Willard Parker Hospital in this city at 7:15 last evening from yellow fever. He arrived here from Oaklawn, Fla., where he has an observatory, on Monday, and was immediately prostrated with a disease which the best physicians unhesitatingly pronounced yellow fever. Other doctors doubted that the disease was really yellow fever but their doubt were removed when the patient was seized with the black vomit last evening and died from its effects. The professor had engaged passage to Europe, intending to sail next Saturday. His family are still at Oaklawn, Fla., where no cases of yellow fever have been reported.
The health officers here are confident that they can battle successfully with the disease in any event. They deny that there are any grounds for popular apprehension, even should other cases be imported from the South. Prof. Proctor's remains were placed in a metallic coffin, according to the rules of the Board of Health, so there can be no danger from burial in any cemetery. Every thing in the hotel-room where Proctor stopped has been removed - Upholstrey, carpets and bedding - and the place thoroughly cleaned and the room nailed tight.
(Richard Anthony Proctor, B.A., was born at Chelsea, Eng., March 23, 1837(?), and graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge, in ????. He was appointed a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in ???? and an honorary fellow of King's College, London, in 1873. He edited the Proceedings of the Royal Astronomical Society in ????. In ???? he created great interest by maintaining, against the almost universal opinion of astronomers, the theory of the solar corona, and also that of the inner complex solar atmosphere, both of which have since been accepted. in 1873(?) Prof. Proctor severed his connection with the Catholic church because, as he said, the theologians of the church had convinced him that the holding of certain scientific views which he believed to be correct was incompatible with loyalty to that faith. In ???? Mr. Proctor was married at St. Joseph, Mo. to a niece of General Jefferson Thompson, of Virginia.
Mr. Proctor has written much on scientific subjects and is the author of more that sixty books, mostly on astronomical subjects, the principal one being "Other Worlds Than Ours" first published in 1870, and "Transits of Venus," 1871.
Freeborn County Standard newspaper; Albert Lea, Minnesota
September 19, 1888; Page Two.
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