14 John Francis Encke. 
Many other labors of Encke may also be found in the Me- 
moirs and Monthly Reports of the Berlin Academy, in the As- 
tronomische Nachrichten, and in four volumes of the Berlin Ob- 
Servations. He is also wel] known by the publication of several 
excellent speeches, and especially for a memorable é/oge on the 
celebrated Bessel. 
Encke visited England in the autumn of 1840, in order to be 
present at the meeting of the British Association, and for the 
purpose of inspecting the English Observatories. His account of 
of a teacher, than when his pupils speak well and lovingly of 
him. They see the man in his weakness and in his strength. 
So it fared with Encke. They bear strong and uniform testi- _ - 
