20 HERSCHEL AND HIS WORK 



who helped him to make it, was the so 



Family histories are strange tiling- ' Ami 

 yet Caroline at seventy-tight years of age says to 

 liT in-j.lirw. \VhM,\, r says too muck of me says 

 too littU of your / and can only cause DM 



uneasiness. 1 whilr l)iirirli never believed he got 

 ]>lay for him.M-lf from parent, brother, or 

 sister. 



I See William Hcrscbel'8 will, Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 

 Dietrich got 2000, but Alexander and Caroline got 100 a year each. 

 As things went in those days, the undeserving fared far better than the 

 really deserving. 



