im much irritated at not being able to grant Mr.
BULMAN'S request for some token of remembrance for his father. As
soon as he saw me, I was sent to the library to fetch one of his
last papers and a plate of the forty-foot telescope. But for the
universe I could not have looked twice at what I had snatched from
the shelf, and when he faintly asked if the breaking up of the Milky
Way was in it, I said 'Yes,' and he looked content. I cannot help
remembering this circumstance; it was the last time I was sent to
the library on such an occasion. That the anxious care for his
papers and workrooms never ended but with his life, was proved by
his frequent whispered inquiries if they were locked and the key
safe, of which I took care to assure him that they were, and the key
in Lady HERSCHEL'S hands.

"After half an hour's vain attempt to support himself, my brother
was obliged to consent to be put to bed, leaving no hope ever to see
him rise again."

On the 25th of August, 1822, HERSCHEL died peacefully at the age of
eighty-four years.

His remains lie in the little church at Upton, near Windsor, where a
memorial tablet has been erected by his son. The epitaph is as
follows:[30]

H. S. E.

GULIELMUS HERSCHEL Eques Guelphicus
Hanoviae natus Angliam elegit patriam
Astronomis aetatis suae praestantissimis
Merito annumeratus
Ut leviora sileantur inventa
Planetam ille extra Saturni orbitam
Primus detexit
Novis artis adjumentis innixus
Quae ipse excogitavit et perfecit
Coelorum perrupit claustra
Et remotiora penetrans et explorans spatia
Incognitos astrorum ignes
Astronomorum oculis et intellectui subjecit
Qua sedulitate qua solertia
Corporum et phantasmatum
Extra systematis nostri fines lucentium
Naturam indagaverit
Quidquid paulo audacius conjecit
Ingenita temperans verecundia
Ultro testantur hodie aequales
Vera esse quae docuit pleraque
Siquidem certiora futuris ingeniis subsidia
Debitura est astronomia
Agnoscent