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Yes, Elizabeth was an Original Member and by December 1890 she had already been appointed Director of the Solar Section.
I have also written on the lives of two prominent women members of the BAA:-
Alice Grace Cook, JBAA, vol. 129, no. 1, p. 29-37, and
Fiammetta Wilson, The Antiquarian Astronomer, issue 13, June 2019, p. 23-29.
I was hoping for something on-line so I reference it for others to see, but I have now found an alternative source of the information required, which is available on-line.
My confusion has been over the use of minutes and seconds as divisions of both degrees (of declination or right ascension) and hours (of right ascension). A complete circle is either 360 degrees or 24 hours so these minutes and seconds are actually different sizes.
It’s the day before the Society for the History of Astronomy‘s Summer Picnic at the Norwich Astronomical Society‘s Observatory.
Yes, that’s the one.
Herbert Tomkins lived locally and his biography is on the OASI website.
Thank You.
