THE inventory of the books, pictures, &c., in the sitting-room of No. 376 Braunschweiger Strass, is too characteristic to be omitted. The following is a copy of it:— Inventory of engravings, all in good black frames, with gilded beads, and glazed:— My Nephew, J. H. My Mother. A drawing of Slough, by J. Herschel. My Brother, Lithographed. Forty-foot Telescope. Medallion of Wm. H., by Flaxman, of 1782. Medallion of Wm. H., by Lochée, of 1787. Engraving of Dr. Maskelyne, and Greenwich Observatory (presented to me by himself). BOOKS. Bode’s Atlas. South’s Observations on Double and Treble Stars, from Phil. Transactions, Vol. I., 1826. South’s Discordance between the Sun’s observed and computed Place. 1826. On the Elements and Orbit of Halley’s Comet, &c., by Lieut. W. S. Stratford, 1837. Preface to, &c., &c., of a General Astronomical Catalogue, by F. Wollaston, 1789. J. H.’s Fourth Series of Observations with a twenty-foot Reflector, containing the places of 1236 Double Stars. Stars in the Southern Hemisphere, observed at Paramatta, in New South Wales, by J. Dunlop, 1828. Astronom. Nachrichten, from 1833 to 1839, in 7 vols. (half bound). Emerson’s Treatise of Arithmetic. Introduction to Sir I. Newton’s Philosophy, with an Essay on, &c., by John Ryland, M.A. (Mem.—A Keepsake of General Komerzewsky to me, and now the same to my dear Nephew from his affectionate Aunt, C. H.) Salmon’s Geographical and Astronomical Grammar. Ferguson’s Astronomy. Watson’s Universal Gazetteer. Quarterly Journal, Vol. XII., 1822. Quarterly Review, July, 1832. Edinburgh Review, January, 1834. The Connexion of the Physical Sciences, by Mrs. Somerville, 1835. Third Vol. of Joanna Baillie’s Plays. (Mem.—Was given me by Lady H. the day before I left England, to remember my friend, J. B.) John F. Wm. Herschel’s Discourse on Nat. Philosophy, which was published in Dr. Lardner’s Cabinet, and that on Astronomy, I had handsomely bound and presented them to the Duke of Cambridge, who asked them of me, and would not even wait till I could read them through myself. Göttinger Anzeigen, 202, 203 Stück, Dec. 14, 1833. J. Herschel’s Papers, from January 12th, 1828, to Nov. 11th, 1833. Bound and directed to the Duke of Cambridge (from C. H.). Eighteen of Wm. H.’s Papers, collected and bound in one volume, and directed for Hauptman Müller. Über den Neuentdecken Planeten, by Bode, 1784. Introduction to English Grammar, by R. South. 1st and 2nd Vols. of Pfaff’s Translation of Herschel’s Sämtliche Schriften, 1826 (collected works). Abominable stuff! What is to be done with them? They are so prettily bound, I cannot take it in my heart to burn them. ---------------------