Johann Galle at the Berlin Observatory received a letter from Le Verrier on 23 September 1846 telling him where to look. Using the new Berlin star-map, in just half an hour (Figure 5) he found the new planet around midnight, shortly before it was due to set, in the buttocks of Aquarius and right next to Saturn. Le Verrier probably received the letter from Johann Galle ("the planet whose position you indicated, really exists") on Monday 28 September, 143 too late for him to announce his news to the weekly meeting of the Academy of Sciences held on that day.144 He instead gave it to two newspapers, who carried it on the 30th, in which he proposed the name, Neptune. 145 Thus Le Verrier had proposed and published its name, before England (with one exception, see below) had even heard of its discovery.!" He then wrote to several European observatories on 1 October, 147 proposing both this name and its symbol, the Trident.Hind became the first Briton to see the new planet, on the evening of 30 September-having received a letter from Brunnard in Berlin that morning -and he immediately wrote to Challis, Adams, Main and Herschel announcing its discovery. To Adams, he wrote: "Understanding from Prof. Challis that you are occupied about the planet of Le Verrier, 1 think you will be gratified to learn ...",148 etc. This candid statement from one in a position to know viewed Adams as being "occupied" with the matter -and that was all. "I have easily viewed a disc this evening", he added. The next day his letter to The Times announced the "Discovery of Le Verrier's Planet", 149 whence the news reverberated across England.On 1 October, James Glaisher, a senior RGO worker, wrote (in Airy's absence) to The Illustrated London News, stating merely that M. Le Verrier's prediction had been confirmed by Dr Galle in Berlin. Two days later, he wrote again, this time describing Challis's prolonged sky-search and even the "seems to have a disc" remark which Challis stated he had inscribed adjacent to Neptune. 150 Glaisher explained that "about four months ago" both Adams and Le Verrier had "concluded, independently, from theoretical calculations" the position of a perturbing planet. These two mathematicians, he added, "agreed in fixing 325 0 of heliocentric longitude as the most probable position of the perturbing planet ...", which position was "very nearly" true. This second letter of his was identical in substance with the first public announcement by Challis, writing to The Cambridge Chronicle on 1 October,"! He too announced that Adams and Le Verrier had both arrived at their similar conclusions "four months"
