ICES OF TELESCOPES 105 



\vu-s a r..iii!Mii j.nr.-. '!'., U- a n in-t r'in.--M in.il.. r 



to aell telescopes, waa allowed him by the Ring; 



his sister's judgment on these condition* of the 



appointment ia marked by her usual outspoken 



toly, ahe preaented the buaineaa 



in tho least favourable 1 th. Kin-, and her 



menU have been unfairly echoed to his discredit 1 



ie so valuable aa HerMchel's was often absorbed 



nderstood little of his work, 



ntelleetual return. Sometimea a 



was paid to Slough that came to be remembered 



i-lin^s, hut from nothing else. Of 



these none was more tragic than that of " the 1 Yincesae 



Lauiballe, who came with a numerous attendance to 



tee the moon, etc. About a fortnight at head 



was off."' 



Mother (/,./ 0/AVirf<m, I 57). In Lalande's Attronomy, vol. i. xlix- 

 h i, i a price-oaUlogue of astronomical iiutnuneoU. Short's pric wew 

 nob reflector, 14 guincu. 



18 20 



24 85 



36 



48 



72 



144 



75 

 100 

 300 

 Ml 



Only one teleacop of 12 feet waa made by Short In presenting a 10- 

 fott reflector to the Society at Gbttingen, George HI. waa following the 

 example of his grandfather, the founder of the Unirenutj, who pre- 

 atnteil > with a moral quadrant of 6-feet radius, made by 



Bird (175), and other instruments. 



Darid Brewster goat too far on the other side when he says, 

 "None of the sorereigns who either preceded or followed him have 

 an equal cUim on the homage of astronomers " (Lift of Xtrto*, I 60). 

 This could not be said of the King at first 



Jfawrfrv, p. 832. ThU is assigned to 17 87, when she was certainly in 

 England ; but the Princess perished in 1792. 



