1. Quoted in Zaban Bessie Jones, Gifford Lyle Boyd, The Harvard College Observatory: The first four directorships, 1839–1919 (Cambridge, Mass., 1971), 49.
2. Jones, Boyd, Harvard College Observatory, 475. Harvard's success at raising funds from the Boston community has led one historian to view the situation there as “atypical”, Ann Mary James, Elites in conflict: The antebellum clash over the Dudley Observatory (New Brunswick, 1987), 13.
3. “Who the Guys Were”: Prosopography in the History of Science