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INDEX 



Henchel, Sir William, birth, 8. 



father of, 6. 

 ., mother's foolishness, 8, 



9, 18, 21. 



,, schooldays of, 11. 

 ,, knowledge of languages, 



12. 

 ,, musical and mechanical 



ability, 13. 

 ,, astronomy, 14. 

 ,, visit to England, 16. 

 ,, flight from Hanover, 



19. 

 ,, engagements in England, 



24, : 



visit to Italy, 26. 

 ,, removes to Bat : 



L'ives concerts there, 27, 



258. 

 ,, appointed to Octagon 



Chapel, 28, 258. 

 ,, race for fame, 32. 

 work in Bath, 35. 

 ,, drought by day, frost by 



night, 39. 



,, discovery of, 47. 

 ,, aims in observing, 53. 

 ,, length of earth's day, 66. 

 ,, "AccountofaComet,"68. 

 ,, Uranus, 73. 

 ,, Catalogue of Double 



Stars, 80. 

 ,, contributions to 1'hil. 



Tram., 81. 

 Conley Medal, 84. 

 ,, public opinion, 85. 

 ,, summoned to court, 86. 

 ,, "showman of the 



heavens," 89. 

 ,, no honour bestowed till 



1816, 94. 

 ,, encouragement of science, 



96. 

 ,, disparagement of Us 



work, 101, 222. 

 ,, King's Astronomer, 103. 

 ,, polishing his great 



mirror, 112. 



his ingenuity, 117. 

 ,, accidents, 119. 



Herschel, requiem of telescope, 125. 

 reviews of the heavens, 

 129. 



:tv and kindness, 

 209, 259. 



failing health, 210. 

 ,, religious sentiments, 215. 



Hugging, Sir William, 229.' 



. 175. 

 Keats, 91. 



Laboratories of universe, 139. 

 Lalande, 40, 51, 58, 77, 88, 105. 

 Linley, Pump-room band, 27, 258. 

 ,, his daughter's singing, 28. 



Mars, 173. 



Maskelyne, honoured by tin- 



French, 86. 

 Mercury, 168. 

 Messier, 111. 

 Mirri.im-tpr, 80. 

 Milky Way, 143, 233. 

 Moon, mountains 



,, volcanoes, 56. 



,, atmosphere, 60. 

 More, Hannah, 29. 



Napoleon, 207. 



Nebulae, relative antiquity, 147. 



resolvable and gaseous. 



228. 



Nebular hypothesis, 235. 

 Newton, encouragement to, 97. 



his telescope, 107. 

 Niemeyer, 26. 



Gibers, discovery of asteroids, 72. 

 , , absorption of 1 igh t by ether, 



147. 



Pfaff, 248. 



i. 72, 119. 



I'..; nts and blunts, war of, 51. 

 Pringle, Sir John, 51. 



Rosse, Lord, 121. 



