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=Names of Johann F. Julius Schmidt (1825 - 1884)=
 Additional information to Appendix L (page 224) in Ewen A. Whitaker's ''Mapping and Naming the Moon, a history of lunar cartography and nomenclature'' (Cambridge, 1999).<br />  Research: Danny Caes<br /> <br />  About Schmidt himself: [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Julius%20Schmidt Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt].<br /> <br /> 
=Discontinued names=
<br />  - '''Barth''' (Birt's Grove)<br /> 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Barth Heinrich Barth] (1821-1865), German explorer of Africa and scholar.
* Schmidt note ([http://books.google.com/books?id=iYgfAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA228#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 228)] that by using the name '''Barth''' he could honor not only the African explorer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Barth Heinrich Barth], but also the three generations of the Leipzig family that had helped him with the publication of [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Lohrmann Lohrmann]'s maps.
* See also reference 8 on page 116 in ''Epic Moon'' (Sheehan/Dobbins).
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Ambrosius_Barth_Verlag Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag]
* Adolph Ambrosius Barth (1827-1869), publisher and bookseller. See also the alphabetic list of burials at the cemetery of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedenspark Friedenspark] in Leipzig, Germany.
<br />  - '''Cap Chamisso''' (Webb's Mons Argaeus)<br /> 

* This could have been [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelbert_von_Chamisso Adelbert von Chamisso] (1781-1838), German poet and botanist.
<br />  - '''Epicurius''' (Birt's De La Rue)<br /> 

* Was it Epicurius or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus Epicurus]? (341 BCE - 270 BCE), ancient Greek philosopher.
<br />  - '''Cap Faraday''' ('''Promontorium Faraday''': the southern end of Montes Caucasus)(the name Faraday is also printed on Birt's map, in different location)<br /> 

* Possibly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday Michael Faraday] (1791-1867), English scientist.
<br />  - '''Hencke''' (Birt's Daniell)<br /> 

* This could have been [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ludwig_Hencke Karl Ludwig Hencke] (1793-1866), German amateur astronomer and discoverer of asteroids 5 Astraea and 6 Hebe.
<br />  - '''Melloni''' (probably the same as Wilkins's Burrell, north of Hansteen, in Oceanus Procellarum)<br /> 

* Possibly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonio_Melloni Macedonio Melloni] (1798-1854), Italian phycisist.
* About Schmidt's '''Melloni''', see also page 275 in ''EPIC MOON'' by W.P.Sheehan and T.A.Dobbins (Willmann-Bell, 2001).
<br />  - [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Mons%20Serao Mons Serao] (slightly east of Mons Wolff in the Montes Apenninus)<br />  - [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Timoleon Timoleon] (south of Gauss, northeast of Hahn)<br /> <br /> 
=Official names=
 - Promontorium Agassiz<br />  - Mons Ampere<br />  - Argelander (also on Birt's map, in different location)<br />  - Asclepi<br />  - Beer (also on Birt's map, in different location)<br />  - Birt (also on Neison's map, in different location)<br />  - Breislak<br />  - Brisbane<br />  - Bunsen<br />  - Carrington (also on Birt's map, in different location)<br />  - Celsius<br />  - Chladni<br />  - Cusanus (first used by Van Langren as "Cusae", then by Riccioli)<br />  - d'Arrest<br />  - Daguerre (see also Krieger's and Konig's list)<br />  - Darwin<br />  - de Gasparis<br />  - Dechen<br />  - Demonax (Franz's Jungnitz)<br />  - Promontorium Deville<br />  - Dove<br />  - Epimenides<br />  - Feuillé (Feuilée)<br />  - Cap Fresnel (Promontorium Fresnel)<br />  - Galle<br />  - Galvani<br />  - Haidinger<br />  - Hamilton<br />  - Heis<br />  - Helmholtz<br />  - Heraclitus<br />  - Ideler<br />  - Janssen (also on Birt's map, in different location)<br />  - Kaiser<br />  - Kane<br />  - Kirchhoff<br />  - Krusenstern<br />  - Kunowsky (also on Neison's map, in different location)<br />  - Le Verrier (see also page 150 in Whitaker's ''Mapping and Naming the Moon''; Lecouturier and Chapuis, "Leverrier")<br />  - Liebig<br />  - Lockyer (also on Birt's map, in different location)<br />  - Luther<br />  - Lyell<br />  - Madler (also on Birt's map, in different location)<br />  - Mallet<br />  - Monge<br />  - Mostlin (Maestlin)<br />  - Naumann<br />  - Neumayer<br />  - Noggerath<br />  - Opelt (Krieger's Keeler)<br />  - Palmieri<br />  - Peirescius<br />  - Petermann<br />  - Peters (also on Birt's map, in different location)<br />  - Protagoras (Birt's Ward)<br />  - Regnault<br />  - Reimarus<br />  - Rumker (Mons Rumker)(also on Birt's map, in different location)<br />  - Schwabe<br />  - Sina (Sinas)<br />  - Spallanzani<br />  - Volta<br />  - Wallace<br />  - Watt<br />  - Wohler<br />  - Young<br />  - Zeno (not the same as Krieger's Zeno at Montes Riphaeus!)<br />  - Zollner<br /> <br /> 
=J.F.J.Schmidt in Sky and Telescope:=
 April 1958 (17, 6) 290<br />  October 1963 (26,4) 204<br />  March 1977 (53,3) 173 </div>