14 A CENTURY'S PROGRESS IN ASTRONOMY. 



the home of her brother, Dietrich Herschel. 

 But she lived twenty-five years among people 

 who cared nothing for astronomy. She was 

 delighted at Sir John Herschel's continuation 

 of his father's work. She compiled a catalogue 

 of all the clusters and nebulao observed by her 

 brother, for which she received the gold medal 

 of the Astronomical Society, and she was created 

 an honorary member. In 1846 she received from 

 the King of Prussia the gold medal of science. 

 But no honours made her in any way elated. 

 She always held that whoever said much of 

 her said too little of her brother. After a pro- 

 longed decline of health, she died on January 9, 

 1848, aged ninety -seven years, and was buried 

 beside her father in the churchyard of the 

 Gartengemeinde at Hanover, leaving behind her 

 a noble example of self-sacrifice and devotion. 



