CHAP, ii.] Sloiigh Appointed Assistant Astronomer. ,75 



for filling up the vacant places in the registers, and works of 

 that land, filled up the intervals when nothing more neces- 

 sary was in hand. 



My brother Jacob was with us from April till October, 

 1787, when he returned to Hanover again. Alexander came 

 only for a short time to give his brother the meeting, 

 Mrs. H. being too ill to be left long alone. (She died in 

 January of 1788.) 



Professor Snaidecky often saw some objects through the 

 twenty-foot telescope, among others the Georgian satellites. 

 He had taken lodgings in Slough for the purpose of seeing 

 and hearing my brother whenever he could find him at 

 leisure ; he was a very silent man. 



My brother's bust was taken by Lochee, according to Sir 

 Wm. "Watson's order. Professor Wilson and my brother 

 Jacob* were present. 



In August an additional man-servant was engaged, who 

 would be wanted at the handles of the motions of the forty- 

 foot, for which the mirror in the beginning of July was so 

 far finished as to be used for occasional observations on trial. 



Such a person was also necessary for showing the 

 telescopes to the curious strangers, as by their numerous 

 visits my brother or myself had for some time past been 

 much incommoded. In consequence of an application 

 made through Sir J. Banks to the King, my brother 

 had in August a second ^2,000 granted for completing 

 the forty-foot, and ^200 yearly for the expense of re- 

 pairs, such as ropes, painting, &c., &c., and the keep and 

 clothing of the men who attended at night. A salary of 

 fifty pounds a year was also settled on me as an assistant to 

 my brother, and in October I received twelve pounds ten, 

 being the first quarterly payment of my salary, and the first 



* This is the last time that the name of Jacob Herschcl appears. 



