In private life Sir John Herschel was a firm and most active friend; he had no jealousies; he avoided all scientific feuds; he gladly lent a helping hand to those who consulted him in scientific difficulties; he never discouraged, and still less disparaged, men younger than or inferior to himself; he was pleased by appreciation of his work without being solicitous for applause; it was said of him by a discriminating critic, and without extravagance, that "his was a life full of serenity of the sage and the docile innocence of a child." He died at Collingwood, his residence near Hawkhurst in Kent, on the 11th of May 1871, in the seventy-ninth year of his age, and his remains are interred in Westminster Abbey close to the grave of Sir Isaac Newton. Besides the laborious _Cape Observations_, Sir John Herschel was the author of several books, one of which at least, _On the Study of Natural Philosophy_ (1830), possesses an interest which no future advances of the subjects on which he wrote can obliterate. In 1849 came the _Outlines of Astronomy_, a volume still replete with charm and instruction. His articles, "Meteorology," "Physical Geography," and "Telescope," contributed to the 8th edition of the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_, were afterwards published separately. When he was at the Cape he was more than once assisted in the attempts there made to diffuse a love of knowledge among men not engaged in literary pursuits; and with the same purpose he, on his return to England, published, in _Good Words_ and elsewhere, a series of papers on interesting points of natural philosophy, subsequently collected in a volume called _Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects_. Another less widely known volume is his _Collected Addresses_, in which he is seen in his happiest and most instructive mood. See also Mrs John Herschel, "Memoir of Caroline Herschel," _Month. Notices Roy. Astr. Society_, xxxii. 122 (C. Pritchard); _Proceedings Roy. Society_, xx. p. xvii. (T. Romney Robinson); _Proceedings Roy. Society of Edinburgh_ vii. 543 (P. G. Tait); _Nature_ iv. 69; E. Dunkin, _Obituary Notices_, p. 47; _Report Brit. Association_ (1871), p. lxxxv. (Lord Kelvin); _The Times_. (May 13, 1871); R. Grant, _History of Phys. Astronomy_; A. M. Clerke, _Popular Hist. of Astronomy_; A. M. Clerke, _The Herschels and Modern Astronomy_; J. H. Madler, _Geschichte der Himmelskunde_, Bd. ii.; _Memoires de la Societe Physique de Geneve_, xxi. 586 (E. Gautier). Reductions, based on standard magnitudes of 919 southern stars, observed by Herschel in sequences of relative brightness, were published by W. Doberck in the _Astrophysical Journal_, xi. 192, 270, and in _Harvard Annals_, vol. xli., No. viii. (C. P.; A. M. C.)