15 January 1836

(Not in Maclear’s hand) Clerical notes used by Sir Thomas Maclear (1794 - 1879).

Maclear was an Irish-born Cape Colony astronomer who became Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope.

He worked with John Herschel until 1838, performing a survey of the southern sky, and continued to perform important astronomical observations over several more decades.

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