ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
It is with great feelings of gratitude and pleasure that I thank and
acknowledge the following
people and places for their help in my researching
and documenting the life
and times of the Reverend Joel Hastings Metcalf:
THE OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
OF
TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
THE TAUNTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
MR. ROBERT WILLIAMS III
(THE TAUNTON UNITARIAN CHURCH
HISTORIAN)
THE WINCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY
DR. "BRIAN" G. MARSDEN
(HARVARD SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL
OBSERVATORY
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS)
JOHN BRIGGS
(YERKES OBSERVATORY)
DR. MATIE HOFFMAN
(UNIVERSITY OF THE ORANGE
FREE STATE
*BOYDEN OBSERVATORY*
SOUTH AFRICA)
MARTHA HAZEN
(PLATE STACKS OF
THE HARVARD
OBSERVATORY COLLEDGE)
MIKE SALADYGA
(AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF VARIABLE
STAR OBSERVERS)
DON MACHHOLZ
COMET SECTION OF THE
ASSOCIATION OF LUNAR AND PLANETARY
OBSERVERS
DOROTHY SCHAUIMBERG
(Curatur, Mary Lea Shane Archives
of the LICK OBSERVATORY)
ANDREAS KAMMERER
The Comet Section of Germany
MIKE
MOBBERLEY
OF THE BRITISH
ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION
MIKE HANLON
AND
MIKE IVEARONE
(TRENCHES ON THE WEB)
Mr. Howard Brewington
for the recovery of
Comet P/Metcalf 1906 VI (97P/Metcalf-Brewington)