peculiar point of view from which they have been accustomed to look,
may think there was something strange in several of the details of the
ceremony that I have just described. I affirm at least that the whole
world will applaud the pious feeling which actuated Sir John Herschel;
and that all the friends of science will thank him for having
consecrated the humble garden where his father achieved such immortal
labours, by a monument more expressive in its simplicity than pyramids
or statues.

FOOTNOTES:

[15] When age and infirmities obliged Alexander Herschel to
give up his profession as a musician, he quitted Bath, and
returned to Hanover, very generously provided by Sir William
with a comfortable independence for life.

[16] Sir W. Herschel had married Mary, the widow of John Pitt,
Esq., possessed of a considerable jointure, and the union
proved a remarkable accession of domestic happiness. This lady
survived Sir William by several years. They had but this
son.--_Translator's Note_.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

OF THE MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM HERSCHEL.[17]

1780. _Philosophical Transactions_, vol. lxx.--Astronomical
Observations on the Periodical Star in the Neck of the
Whale.--Astronomical Observations relative to the Lunar Mountains.

1781. _Phil. Trans._, vol. lxxi.--Astronomical Observations on the
Rotation of the Planets on their Axes, made with a View to decide
whether the Daily Rotation of the Earth be always the same.--On the
Comet of 1781, afterwards called the _Georgium Sidus_.

1782. _Phil. Trans._, vol. lxxii.--On the Parallax of the Fixed
Stars.--Catalogue of Double Stars.--Description of a Lamp
Micrometer, and the Method of using it.--Answers to the Doubts that
might be raised to the high magnifying Powers used by Herschel.

1783. _Phil. Trans._, vol. lxxiii.--Letter to Sir Joseph Banks on
the Name to be given to the new Planet.--On the Diameter of the
Georgium Sidus, followed by the Description of a Micrometer with
luminous or dark Disks.--On the proper Motion of the Solar System,
and the various Changes that have occurred among the Fixed Stars
since the Time of Flamsteed.

1784. _Phil. Trans._, vol. lxxiv.--On some remarkable Appearances
in the Polar Regions of Mars, the Inclination of its Axis, the
Position of its Poles, and its Spheroidal Form.--Some Details on
the real Diameter of Mars,