LIVES <>!' v. \i III.KSC in i. 



wen? of hopes at tat fulfill. -1, and thought 



longii et reflector, with \sl.i.-h she 



used to sweep the heaven*, ss it stood in the room 

 beside h which she should never use agn 



1 ! i having seen Beesel," she wrote 



to her nepht 

 parallax of 61 Cy-ni." : 



Ue seven-foot shall stand in my room, and be my 



to do with it wan a puzzle to her. Her sweeper she 

 thou; -living to her girlhood's fri -n.i s -i.u: 



Miss Beckedorff, hut in 1840 it was consigned to M the 

 hands of the good, honest creature, Dr. Hauamann." 

 "The five-foot Newtonian reflector," she wrote that 

 same yeai \ the hands of the Royal Astronomical 



Society, .ui'l will be preserved )>y it as the little tele- 

 scope of Newton is by the Royal S mg after 

 I and all tlu little ones are dead and gone." It was 

 a source of justifiable pride to her as she neareil th< 

 and 



ili ful to the memory and greatness of her de- 

 parted brother, she resented every attempt at an 

 imperfect or unworthy presentation of and 



works. What she should have done herself, and she 

 had better means than others of doing it truthfully 

 and faithfully, she left to the ignorant or the conceited 

 to attempt She coul-1 only rail at >rta, and 



wish they had 1- it i It was not just 



to him HH world wishes to know some- 

 M whoa* greateeai .r u.in.i oc Mhiervnaat 

 d humanity or extended ita knowledge of 



1 Memoir*, p. 827. 



Fire-foot Newtonian .weeper," Mtmoin, p. 91. 



