CHAPTER XIII. 



EITURN TO ENOLAND LETTER FROM HALLAM TREATISE ON THE FORM 

 AND ROTATION OP THE EARTH AND PLANETS SECOND EDITION 0V 



"CONNEXION o* PHYSICAL SCIENCES" LETTERS FROM MARIA 



EPGEWORTH, MISS BERRY, LORD BROUGHAM, MRS.MARCET, ADMIRAL 

 SMYTH DOUBLE STARS ECLIPSE OF DOUBLE STARS LETTER FROM 

 ADMIRAL SMYTH SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL NEBULJB LETTER FROM 

 LORD ROSSE LETTER FROM SIR JOHN HERSCHEL SIR JAMES 

 SOUTH'S OBSERVATORY MR. JOHN MURRAY MISS BERRY LORD 

 DUDLEY MR. BOWDITCH AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS- 

 MRS. BKOWNINQ WASHINGTON LETTER FROM THE REV. DB. 

 TUCKERMAN SIR WILLIAM FAIRFAX ATTACKED BY HIGHWAYMEN. 



As soon as we returned to Chelsea, the " Con- 

 nexion of the Physical Sciences " was published. It 

 was dedicated to Queen Adelaide, who thanked me 

 for it at a drawing-room. Some time after Somerville 

 and I went to Scotland ; we had travelled all night 

 in the mail coach, and when it became light, a 

 gentleman who was in the carriage said to Somer- 

 ville, " Is not the lady opposite to me Mrs. Somer- 

 ville, whose bust I saw at Chrntrey's 1" The 

 gentleman was Mr. Sopwith, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 

 a civil and mining engineer. He was distinguished 

 for scientific knowledge, and had been in London 



