published in seven papers in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, including an extensive series of observations of Comet 1882b. He published several other papers in other journals, such as his observation on the lunar eclipse of 11 March 1895 in Popular Astronomy and a curious meteor trail seen at Grahamstown on 22 October 1895, also published in Popular Astronomy. His contributions to the Journal of the British Astronomical Association included notes on a brilliant meteor and the colours and spectra of 100 southern stars in 1894 and the conjunction of the moon with Venus in 1903. He observed a transit of Mercury in 1894 and in 1907 he studied the planet Mars with great detail and published drawings that were highly acclaimed by E. M. Antoniadi of the Mars section of the British Astronomical Association. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society on 14 May 1880. From 1881 to 1898 he regularly published his observations of comets in the local newspaper, the Grahamstown Journal, including observations of Fabry's comet (1886), Swift's Comet (1892) and Gale's Comet (1894). The Eddie crater on Mars is an 89 kilometer wide crater named in his honour. Selected publications Eddie, L.A. (1886) "Observations of Fabry's comet" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Eddie, L.A. (1888) "The southern comet; observations made at Graham's Town, Cape of Good Hope" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Eddie, L.A. (1895) "Observations of the transit of Mercury, 1894" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Eddie, L.A. (1899) "Observations of Swift's comet, 1899" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Eddie, L.A. (1899) "Tempel's comet (1873 II-c, 1899)" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society See also List of hyperbolic comets References External links MNRAS Description of Mercury transit Obituary of L.A. Eddie Lindsay Adkins Eddie on S2A3 1845 births 1913 deaths South African astronomers South African scientists