INDEX. 



ACADEMY. 



Academy, R. Irish, 300. 

 Astronomical Society of London, 221, 



271. 

 Aubert, Alex., letter from Miss Her- 



schel on discovering her first comet, 



66 ; her third comet, 86. 



Baily, F. , letter from Miss Herschel, 

 272-274 ; letter to her with his 

 " Account of Flamsteed," 281 ; her 

 answer, 282. 



Baldwin, Miss, her marriage, 129 ; 

 death, 132. 



Banks, Sir J., letter from William 

 Herschel en his sister's second 

 comet, 84 ; from Miss Herschel on 

 her third comet, 85 ; and her 

 eighth, 94. 



Beckedorff, Miss, letters during the 

 latter years of Miss Herschel's life, 

 338-340, 343-345. 



Beckedorff, Mrs., 108. 



Blagden, Dr., letter from Miss Her- 

 schel about her first comet, 65. 



Brewster, Sir David, opinion of Miss 

 Herschel's catalogue of all the star- 

 clusters and Nebulse, 145, 146. 



Cambridge, Duke of, letter to Miss 

 Herschel on the return of her 

 nephew from the Cape, 292. 



Cape of Good Hope Sir John Her- 

 schel leaves the Cape, 292. 



Collingwood, the seat of the Herschel 

 famfly, 320. 



Comets, Miss Herschel's first, 64 ; 

 second, 80 ; third, 85 ; fifth, sixth, 

 93 ; eighth, 94. 



Cumberland, Duke of, proclaimed 

 king of Hanover, 290. 



Dessau, Princess of Anhalt, letter to 

 Miss Herschel, 267. 



.'HERSCHEL. 



Earthquake at Lisbon, sensatiou pro- 

 duced in Hanover, 6. 



Encke, Prof., letter to Miss Herschel, 

 248. 



Englefield, Sir H., letter from W. 

 Herschel on his sister's second 

 comet, 83. 



Epitaph on Miss Herschel, 351. 



Etna, Mount, ascent by Sir John 

 Herschel, 173. 



Flamsteed's Catalogue, calculations 



for, 60. 

 Forty-foot telescope, 76, 308, 30!>, 



310. 



Gauss, Hofrath, letter from Miss 

 Herschel, with her index to Flaui- 

 steed's Observations, 191 ; his an- 

 swer, 195. 



George III. visits the Slough Obser- 

 vatory, 104 ; anecdote of, and the 

 Archb. of Canterbury, 309. 



Georgian Satellites, the, 74, 305, 

 316. 



Georgium Sidus, the, discovered, 39. 



Gloucester, Princess Sophia^ of, visit 

 to the telescope, 128. 



Halley's Comet, 283. 



Herschel, Alex., assists his brother 

 William, 36, 53, 109, 111, 115, 

 122 ; returns to Hanover, 125 ; 

 death, 132 ; notice of, 132. 



Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, early 

 recollections, 1-28 ; affection for 

 her brother William, 9 ; at the 

 Garrison school, 11 ; her father's 

 careful training, 13 ; typhus fever, 

 15 ; confirmation, 17 ; learns dress- 

 making, 21 ; accompanies William 

 to England, 26-28 ; life in Bath, 

 29-50 ; Heimwehe, 33 ; visit to 

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