CHAPTER VIII. 



EDUCATION OF DAUGHTERS DR. WOLLASTON DR. YOUHO 

 THE HERSCHELS. 



WHEN we returned to Hanover Square, I devoted 

 my morning hours, as usual, to domestic affairs ; 

 but now my children occupied a good deal of my 

 time. Although still very young, I thought it ad- 

 visable for them to acquire foreign languages ; so I 

 engaged aFrench nursery-maid, that they might never 

 suffer what I had done from ignorance of modern 

 languages. I besides gave them instruction in such 

 things as I was capable of teaching, and which were 

 suited to their age. 



It was a great amusement to Somerville and 

 myself to arrange the minerals we had collected 

 during our journey. Our cabinet was now very rich. 

 Some of our specimens we had bought ; our friends 

 had given us duplicates of those they possessed ; 

 and George Finlayson, who was with our troops in 

 Ceylon, and who had devoted all his spare time to 

 the study of the natural productions of the country, 



