09 mi-- 24S 



i more tliau 1 have the 

 power to sp by a twelve years' trial I find 



I cannot got rid of more than 600 thL = 100 per 

 year iking myaelf >ua," 



Her 1 1.-.- 1 -hi* were not set on money, or on the 

 reap* !> IM-I. earned, usually 



brings. The memory of the "best and dearest of 

 >mg to her with an all-ahnorbing power. 

 It was her first and her la*t luve. " You have made 

 me complete!} happy iW m she wrote 



Hanover to his son, with t ho account you sent me of 

 the double stars ; but it vexes me more and more that 

 in this abominable c a is no one who is capable 



of partak ioy I feel on this revival of your 



father's name. His observations on double stars were 

 from first to last the most interesting subject 

 never lost si^l m his papers on the constru* 



10 heavens, etc. And I cannot help hum 

 that h<- couM not take to his grave with him th<- satis- 

 i feel at present in seeing his ton doing him 

 so ample justice by endeavoi. perfect what he 



could only begin." When Sir John Hern- vered 



the address that preceded the handing over to Bessel 

 -I" the Astronomical Society's Gold Medal for deter- 

 mining, by means of the heliometer, the distance from 

 us of the double star 61 Cygni, she was heart and soul 

 with him when he said, "Gentlemen, I congratulate 

 you and myself that we have lived to see the great 

 un<l hitherto impassable barrier to our excursions 

 the sidereal universe that barrier against which we 

 have chafed so long and so vainly almost simultane- 

 ously overleaped at three different point*." 1 11- 



> A*r<m. Sec. TVaiM. xti. 448-W. 



