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Amici, 121.

Asteroids, 72, 191.

Banks, Sir Joseph, 111, 239.

Bath, as seen by Smollett, 2; by Horace Walpole, 46.

„ housekeeping at, 33.

Brewster, Sir David, 102, 234.

Bolman (Leeds), 33.

Burney, opinion of Jacob Herschel, 32.

„ visit to Slough, 201.

Burney (Fanny), Windsor gossip, 197.

Campbell, interview with Herschel, 206.

„ New Monthly Magazine, 257.

Catalogues of stars, 133, 227.

Comets, 193.

Dollond, 109.

Eighteenth century, 41.

Equerries at Windsor, 60.

Eros, discovery of, 71.

Error, limits of, 53.

Facio Duillier, eclipse of 1706, 61.

Ferguson's Astronomy, 43.

Fraunhofer, 99, 127.

Galileo, 99, 107.

Gauges of stars, 141.

George, a lover of astronomy, 84.

„ delays in dealing with Herschel, 90.

„ Triumvirate, 239.

Georgium Sidus, 75.

Glasgow, visits to, 204.

Greenwich Observatory, 52.

„ instruments, 88.

Halley, eclipse of 1715, 63.

„ flattery to Charles, 77.

Hanover, society in, 34, 251.

Harding, asteroid Juno, 72.

Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, 3.

„ relations towards her brothers, 3.

„ Cinderella, 6, 255.

„ a concert singer, 28.

„ not successful, 32, 38.

„ in England, 29.

„ word-portrait of her, 30, 250.

„ the Lady's Comet, 81.

„ her pension, 81; unpaid, 114.

„ honours paid to her, 243.

„ view of Lives of her brother, 247.

„ life in Hanover, 251.

„ views on servants and workpeople, 34, 115, 252.

Herschel, Sir John F., decline of science in England, 97.

„ distance of stars, 245.

„ Cape of Good Hope, 249.