THE LIFE OF ROGER LANGDON
Reading edition
TOLD BY HIMSELF
With Additions by his Daughter
Ellen
LONDON ELLIOT STOCK 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
"PROGRESS OF ASTRONOMY"
[From "Whitaker's Almanack" for 1895, under the heading "Progress of Astronomy."]
Mr. Langdon, station-master at Silverton, on the Great Western Railway, a self-taught astronomer, died on July 18, 1894. Mr. Langdon made in his spare hours an 8-inch silver-on-glass mirror, grinding it on a machine of his own construction. In 1872 he contributed a paper to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on "The Markings of Venus."