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engage your attention, and that you can turn your 

 residence in that sunny clime to such admirable account. 

 So do not call upon me to retract (for before you get this 

 the papers will be in the secretary's hands). 



I am here nearly as much out of the full stream of 

 scientific matters as } r ou at Rome. We had a full and 

 very satisfactory meeting at Cambridge of the British 

 Association, with a full attendance of continental magne- 

 tists and meteorologists, and within these few days I 

 have learned that our Government meant to grant all our 

 requests and continue the magnetic and meteorological 

 observations. Humboldt has sent me his Cosmos (Vol. I.), 

 which is good, all but the first 60 pages, which are 

 occupied in telling his readers what his book is not to be. 

 Dr. Whewell has just published another book on the 

 Principles of Morals, and also another on education, in 

 which he cries up the geometrical processes in preference 

 to analysis. . 



Yours very faithfully, 



J. HERSCHEL. 



The Prince and Princesse de Broglie came to 

 Rome in 1845, and Signore Pellegrino Rossi, at this 

 time French Minister at the Vatican, gave them a 

 supper party, to which we were invited. We had 

 met with him long before at Geneva, where he had 

 taken refuge after the insurrection of 1821. He was 

 greatly esteemed there and admired for his eloquence 

 in the lectures he gave in the University. It was 



