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smallest part of 3 r our income. On the contrary, it would 

 rather be my dut} 7 , were it insufficient, to add to it, but the 

 account you give of your situation, corroborated as it is by 

 what I have myself seen of it, sets at rest all apprehensions 



on that score. 



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I hope the Catalogue of Nebulae goes on as you wish. 

 I shall have little time now for astronomical observations, 

 being become a resident in London in consequence of 

 taking on myself the duties of Secretary to the Eoyal 



Society. 



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I have sent the lenses you wished for, and also two prints 

 of the king and queen of the Sandwich Islands, which I 

 would be much obliged to you if you would transmit to 

 Prof. Blumenbach, with my compliments. They are the 

 best that have appeared, and are considered striking 

 liknesses. 



MISS HERSCHEL TO J. F. W. HERSCHEL. 



HANOVEH, Jan. 14, 1825. 

 MY DEAREST NEPHEW, 



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I am now writing out the Catalogue of Nebulae, and am at 

 zone 30, and hope to finish it for the Easter messenger ; 

 but my health is so wretched that I often am obliged to lay 

 by for a day or two. Dr. Groskopf desires his compli- 

 ments, and I am to tell you that when next you come to 

 Hanover again he can not only procure you a sight of 

 Leibnitz's MS., but leave to. take some home with you. I 

 am in quest of a good print of Leibnitz for you, and hope 

 soon to hear of one, which shall accompany Dr. Franklin's, 

 which Dietrich lately found among his music. 



