2GG Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [1834. 



second likely to live (if not beyond) at least to the age of 

 his grandfather ? 



Perhaps you will receive the " Gottingsche Gelehrte 

 Anzeigen" of 16th and 19th December, 1833, containing 

 what is said of your book on Natural Philosophy (by Gauss 

 they say). 



God bless you all, and believe, my dear nephew, 

 Ever your most affectionate aunt, 



CAR. HERSCHEL. 



FROM J. F. W. HERSCHEL TO MISS HERSCHEL. 



FELDHAUSEN, June 6, 1834. 

 MY DEAR AUNT, 



The twenty-foot has been in activity ever since the 

 end of February, and, as I have now got the polishing appa- 

 ratus erected and three mirrors (one of which I mean to 

 keep constantly polishing) the sweeping gets on rapidly. I 

 had hardly begun regular sweeping, when I discovered two 

 beautiful planetary nebulfie, exactly like planets, and one of 

 a fine blue colour. I have not been unmindful of your hint 

 about Scorpio, I am now rummaging the recesses of that 

 constellation and find it full of beautiful globular clusters. 

 A few evenings ago I lighted on a strange nebulas, of which 

 here is a figure ! and since I am about it I shall add a figure 

 of one of the resolvable nebulae in the greater magellanic 

 cloud. The equatorial is at last erected, and the revolving 

 roof (upon a plan of my own) works perfectly well, but I 

 am sorry to say that the nights in which it can be used to 

 advantage are rare, even rarer than in England, as, in spite 

 of the clearness of the sky, the stars are ill-defined and ex- 

 cessively tremulous. But a truce to astronomical details ! 

 though from time to time I shall continue to plague you 



