BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HERSCHEL's WRITINGS 515 



Astronomical observations and experiments tending to investigate tlio local arrange- 

 ment of the celestial bodies in space, and to determine the extent and couditiou 

 of the Milky Way. 



Phil. Trans., 1817, pp. 302-331. Bode's Jahriiich, 1821, p. 149. 



Astronomical observations and experiments selected for the purpose of ascertaining 

 the relative distances of clusters of stars, and of investigating how far the power 

 of our telescopes may bo expected to reach into space, when directed to ambigu- 

 ous celestial objects. ^^^^ ^^„ ^^„ 



Phil. Trans., 1818, pp. 429-470. 



On the places of one hundred and forty-five new double stars (1821). 



Mem. Po)/. Ast. Soc, I., 1822, pp. lGG-181. 



III.— List of works relating to the life and writlngs of 

 William Herschel. 



[aRUAXGED ALPnABETICVLLY BY AUTHORS.] 



[S. B. In general, tlio notices of Ms life to be found in encyclopaedias of biography, etc., are not in. 



eluded bere.l 



Arago (F.) 



Analyse do la vie et des travans do Sir William Herschel [from Annuairc du 

 hureaii des Longitudes, 1842]. Paris, 1843. 18mo. 



[See also the Annuaire for 1834, for an account of IIerschel's work on 

 double stars.] 



Arago (F.) 



Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men. Translated by Admiral W. H. 

 "smyth, Rev. B. Powell, and Robert Grant, Esq. Herschel. 



First series, p. 258. Boston, 1859. 8vo. 



Arago (F.) 



Herschel. [Translated from the French.] 

 Smithsonian Report. 1870, p. 197. 8vo. 



Auwers (A.) ^ ^ , , ., . 



William Herschel's Verzeichnisse von Nebelflecken und Sternhaufen hearbeitet 



von A. Auwers. 



From the Konigsierg Observations. 18G2. Folio. 



Bessel (F. W.) ^ ,^^^ ^. 



Sir William Herschel. [From the Kdnigslcrger AUgemeine Zeitung, 1, 1843, J\o. 

 37, et seq., reprinted in his] Ahhandlungen, vol. iii., p. 4G8. Leipzig, 1876. 4to. 



Bruhns (C.) ,. __ „ 



Karoline Lucretia Herschel, aus der AUgcm. Detitschen Biographie. 18//, 8vo. 



D' Arrest (H. L.) ^ ■ , n^ .=« 



Verzeichniss von Sir William Herschel's Nebelflecken erster und vierter Clause, 

 aus den Beobachtungen berechnet und anf 1850 reducirt. 



Abliandlungen d. Math. Phys. Classe der K. Sachs. Gesell. d. Wmenschaften 

 Band iii [1857] p. 359. 



Dunkin (E.) • 



Obituary Notices of Astronomers, p. 8G. 



Sir William Herschel, K. C. H., F. R. S., 1738, 1822. 

 London, 1879. 12mo. 



