Lockyer
JOSEPH NORMAN, an English astronomer; born in Rugby, England, May 17, 1836. In 1869 he was elected an F. R. S., and in 1870 was appointed secretary to the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction, made Lecturer on Astronomy at the Normal School of Science at South Kensington, and sent out to Sicily as head of the eclipse expedition. In the following year he headed a similar expedition to India and was elected Rede lecturer at Cambridge. He had already in 1866 discovered a new method of observing the sun; and in 1874 he gained the Rumford medal of the Royal Society and was appointed editor of "Nature." He was an able popular lecturer on astronomical physics, and wrote "Elementary Lessons in Astronomy" (1868) ; "Studies in Spec- (1868); "Studies in Spectrum Analysis" (1878) ; "Contributions to Solar Physics" (1873) "The Spectro- (1873); "The Spectroscope and its Applications" (1873) ; a primer on "Astronomy" (1874) ; "Star- Gazing" (1878) ; "The Chemistry of the Sun" (1887) ; "The Meteoritic Hypothe- (1887); "The Meteoritic Hypothesis" (1890); "Dawn of Astronomy" (1894); etc. He died in 1920.
LOCOMOTIVE. See RAILWAYS.
LOCRI. See GERACE.