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mathematician, which embraced all, &c., .... then he 

 asked if you studied chemistry ? answer, very much ! you 

 had built yourself a laboratorium at Slough, had a house 

 in town for three years, was secretary of the Royal Society, 

 would probably, in the vacation, be at Slough, c., &c., and 

 in return he told me that he heard from everybody you were 

 a very learned philosopher ; and if I tell you that the Duke 

 of Cambridge is the favourite of all who know him, I think 

 I have made you acquainted with one another. 



My brother intends soon to write a few words about 

 insects himself, which is almost the only object with which 

 he amuses himself. It is well he does not see the word 

 amuses, for I suppose it should be sublime study, for when- 

 ever he catches a fly with a leg more than usual, he says it 

 is as good as catching a comet ! Do you think so ? 



Perhaps I may have soon an opportunity of sending by 

 Mr. Quintain a German translation of Baron Fourier's 

 " Forlesung." I must examine first if I have the whole or 

 not ; it does not seem bad, but as I do not understand 

 French, which I had only read to me by Miss Beckedorff, I 

 can be no judge; but I think you will not be displeased 

 with it ; but at the ending they have not mended it, for it 

 also says I had published all your father's papers, though 

 nobody will or does believe that ; still I would rather that 

 nothing at all had been said about me than say the thing 

 which is impossible ; and I shall only fare like Bruce when 

 he pretended to have made the drawings to his publications 

 himself; his having wrote the book, or even having been in 

 Abyssinia, was disbelieved. 



I must only add that I am, my dearest nephew, 

 Your affectionate aunt, 



CAR. HERSCHEL. 



