86 Sir J. Herschel’s Astronomical Observations 
Arr. XIV.—Resulis of Astronomical Observations made during 
the years 1834, 5, 6, 7,8, at the Cape of Good Hope; being 
the completion of a telescopic survey of the whole surface of 
the Heavens, commenced in 1825; by Sir Joun F. W. Her- 
SCHEL, Bart., K.H., &c. &c. &c. London, 1847. pp. 472. Ato.* 
Astronomers in the old world and new, have for several years 
been eagerly looking for the appearance of this great work, whic 
should disclose to them the hidden treasures of the Southern 
Hemisphere. Their impatient curiosity, we are confident, will 
suffer no disappointment. It is a splendid work, even in its ex- 
terior, affording no indifferent specimen of the state of the arts 
in Great Britain ; but those for whom the work is more especially 
designed, will not be long detained in surveying the excellence 
of the structure without, “but will hasten to feast their eyes on 
the cabinet within 
From the year 1825 to 1833, Sir John Herschel prosecuted the 
researches on the Nebule commenced by his illustrious Father; 
a field of labor which has not inappropriately been called the 
“romance of astronom A mind which has long been conver- 
sant with this fairy region of the Uneaten ean hardly find suffi- 
cient aliment among these nether worlds; Rate when all the ob- 
jects of this class within its native skies e brought under its 
dominion, Alexander-like it sighs for new te oride to conquer. | 
Accordingly, in the year 1833, after Sir John Herschel had ir 
ished his review of the Nebula visible in the latitude of Slough, 
he took his departure for the Cape of Good Hope, for the purpose 
of completing his survey of the heavens by adding to the list, al- 
ready swelled by the united labors of father and son to the num- 
ber of 2307, the nebule of the southern hemisphere. He took 
with him the twenty-feet reflector which he had already omplora a 
with such distinguished success in his northern survey, a 
seven-feet equatorial, besides such smaller instruments as his exi- 
gencies might probably require. He set sail on the 13th of 
Nov ember, ‘1833 ; a day memorable in io annals of this country 
for the occurrence of the great Meteoric Shower, which first drew 
the attention of the scientific world to a new department of ob- 
servation and speculation. Although several gales set in set the 
coast of Northern Europe, immediately after he sailed, H 
was so fortunate as to escape them, and arrived safely at "Table 
Bay on the 15th of January, 1834. 
The place of observation selected, was a spot near the man- 
sion of a Dutch proprietor,—a retreat which bore the name of 
Feldhausen, about six miles from the Cape, “a spot ¢ ly 
: me last cat slope at the base of Table Mountain. > 
