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HER SWEEPINGS BLANK IN HER LIFE AT HANOVER LETTEUS 

 TO LADY HERSCHEL LETTERS BETWEEN HER AND HER NEPHKW 

 VISIT FROM HER NEPHEW FINISHES HER CATALOGUE OF THE 

 NEBULJE 141 



CHAPTER VI. 



LIKE IN HANOVER CONTINUED LETTERS BETWEEN HER AND II KK 

 NEPHEW HER WILL FIRST CHAPTER OF HER HISTORY RECEIVES 

 THE GOLD MEDAL OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY FEAR- 

 FUL STORM HER PORTRAIT HER NEPHEW'S MARRIAGE PREPA- 

 RATION FOR HER DEATH PAGANINI HER NEPHEW KNIGHTED 

 LADT HERSCHEL'S DEATH RETROSPECTION 196 



CHAPTER VII. 



LETTERS FROM THE CAPE HON. MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL 

 SOCIETY CATALOGUE OF OMITTED STARS LETTERS SATURN AND 

 HIS SIXTH SATELLITE HER NEPHEW *S VISIT HON. MEMBER OF 

 THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY EXTRACTS FROM DAY-BOOK ANEC- 

 DOTE OF THE OLD TELESCOPE CHRISTMAS IN HANOVER GOLD 

 MEDAL FROM THE KING OF PRUSSIA DECLINING STRENGTH 

 DEATH FUNERAL . ... 262 



TO BINDER. 



Portrait of Caroline Herschel. Frontispiece. 



Portrait of Sir William Herschel, after the original by Abbott, in 



the National Portrait Gallery, to face p. 118. 

 Herscbel's Forty-foot Telescope, to face p. 29. 



