228 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [1828. 



MISS HERSCHEL TO J. F. W. HERSCHEL. 



June 3, 1828. 



MY DEAREST NEPHEW, 



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And I must once more repeat my thanks to you (and 

 perhaps to Mr. South) for thinking so well of me as to 

 exert yourselves for having the great and undeserved and 

 unexpected honour of a medal bestowed on me 



Here I was interrupted, and all along of the medal ; for 

 my friends are all coming to congratulate me, and leave me 

 no time to think of what to say of myself ; but I will soon 

 write again, and for the present will only beg that you (or 

 Miss Baldwin, for I dare say she knows,) will give me the 

 history of the medal, such as whose head it is which is on 

 the one side ? (I know who it is like very well) and if the 

 impression is to be permanent ? 



Next, I wish to know if you, or the Royal Society, or 

 the Observatory at Greenwich (the latter I think must be> 

 are in communication with the Imperial astronomer Littrow ? 

 If you have seen any of the publications which are yearly 

 printed at the expense of the Emperor, I could wish, if it 

 is not too much trouble to you, to know what you think of 

 the work ; because Count Rupfstein, Charge d'Affaires, sent 

 me the copy (which was to go to Gottingen) to look at, and 

 since then he wants my opinion about it. And I know 

 no more about it than that it is a book printed on fine 

 paper, large folio, of 195 pages, with seven plates of the 

 New Observatory made out of the old one, built at the 

 top of the seventh story of the University at Vienna, 

 a description of the store of instruments, thirty-five 

 articles including rules, two spirit-levels and a case of 

 drawing instruments ; tables of precession, aberration, and 

 nutation of ninety-four of the principal stars for the 



