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his immense catalogue of stars ; the second for his observa- 

 tions, also of double stars ; the third for his discovery of 

 twenty or thirty comets. Will you, on receiving them, 

 distribute them as follows: 1. Keep the bound copy for 

 yourself; 2. My uncle; 3. M. Harding; 4. M. Gauss; 

 5. The Eoyal Society of Gottingen. The three last, I have 

 no doubt, M. Blumenbach will forward. I was gratified 

 some time back by a short note from Professor Blumenbach, 



from which I find he received the pictures safely. 



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I have already found your Catalogue of Nebulae in zones, 

 very useful in my twenty-foot sweeps, and I mean to get it 

 in order for publication by degrees ; but it will take a long 

 time, as it will require a great deal of calculation to render 

 it available as a work of reference. 



The permission to examine Leibnitz's MSS. will be very 

 acceptable to me should I again visit Hanover, but of that 

 I have no immediate prospect. A very intimate friend of 

 mine, Mr. James Grahame, talks of taking up his residence 

 at Gottingen for the sake of the library of the University. 

 He is writing a history of America. I shall give him a 

 letter to Professor Blumenbach, and shall beg you to in- 

 troduce him to his son, Regierungsrath B., and perhaps 

 Dr. Groskopf will make him acquainted with Dr. Koch, of 

 the Eoyal Library at Hanover, who may be able to assist 

 him in his researches If there is anything in Eng- 

 land you wish for, or that you cannot get so well in Hanover, 

 pray name it, and I will make a point of procuring it. . . . . 



J. F. W. HEKSCHEL TO MISS HERSCHEL. 



DEVONSHIRE STREET Dec, 30, 1825. 

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I have not been doing much in the astronomical way 

 of late but, en revanche, Mr. South has been hard at work, 



