Excerpt from A Catalogue of Circumpolar Stars: Deduced From the Observations of Stephen Groombridge, Esq. F. R. S. S. R. A Nap;, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, &C, Reduced to January 1, 1810

I cannot with certainty state. It appears that Mr. Henry Jenkins, then principal computer of the Nautical Almanac, and Mr. Thomas Glanville Taylor, late assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and now director of the East India Company's Observatory at Madras, had a part of these computations. I am, however, unable to say whether any other persons were employed, or to what time those whom I have mentioned continued to labour on the reductions.

After the death of Dr. Young (in the spring of and the subsequent departure of Mr. T. G. Taylor for India, it became necessary to appoint a new superintendant of the computations; and Mr. Pond, apparently in his official character as Astronomer Royal, nominated Mr. Henry Taylor, brother of Mr. T. G. Taylor above mentioned. The calculations, it appears, were first put in his hands about June, 1830. Computers were employed by Mr. H. Taylor; the reductions were completed; the Catalogue in every respect prepared for press; and, after the necessary sanction from the Board of Admiralty, the Catalogue and Introduction were completely printed at the expense of the Government. Before publication, copies, in the hands of the scientific officers of the Admiralty, were exhibited to some gentlemen, whose opinion of the work it was thought desirable to learn.

It was thought by these persons that some alterations might, with advantage, be made in the Introduction. To give any Opinion on the Catalogue itself, without a laborious comparison with the original books, was of course impossible; all that could be said was, that its form was unobjectionable. An offer was made by the Rev. Richard Sheepshanks to assist in remodelling the Introduction; and, the observing books being placed in his hands, it was accordingly re-arranged and re written, in conformity with his proposition. It appears, however, that some altera tion was made in the Introduction by Mr. H. Taylor, after it had left Mr. Sheepshanks' hands. This Introduction was set up in type. These transactions occurred in the autumn of 1832.

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