BREEN

James ( 2 son of Hugh Breen who superintended Lunar reductions at Royal Observatory, Green wich ). b. Armagh 5 July 1826; a calculator at Royal Observatory, Green wich Aug. 1842 to Aug. 1846 and at Cambridge Observatory Aug. 1846 to Dec. 1858; observed the total eclipse of the sun at Camuesa in Spain 18 July 1860; F.R.A.S. 10 June 1862; author of The Planetary Worlds, the topography and telescopic appearance of the sun, planets, moon and comets 1854; contributed to Popular Science Review and other periodicals generally anonymously. d. 25 Aug. 1866. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxvii , 104 (1867).