6 DEDICATION. 



as one of them said, that your head is far from being the best part 

 about you. 



M.i\ your sojourn in the southern hemisphere be as happy and suc- 

 cessful as its object is noble and worthy of you ; and may your return 

 home be speedy and prosperous, as soon as your purpose is attained. 



Ever, my dear Herschel, yours, 



W. Whewell. 

 March 22, 1837. 



P. S. So I wrote nearly ten years ago, when you were at the Cape 

 of Good Hope, employed in your great task of making a complete 

 standard survey of the nebulas and double stars visible to man. Now 

 that you are, as I trust, in a few weeks about to put the crowning 

 stone upon your edifice by the publication of your " Observations in 

 the Southern Hemisphere," I cannot refrain from congratulating you 

 upon having had your life ennobled by the conception and happy exe- 

 cution of so great a design, and once more offering you my wishes 

 that you may long enjoy the glory you have so well won. 



w. w. 



Trinity College, Nov. 22, 1846 



