--------------------- THE GRAVE OF CAROLINE HERSCHEL. FROM MISS BECKEDORFF. _Feb. 4, 1850._ “... If I have owned my having neglected visiting Sir John’s _living_ relations, it has not been the same with the churchyard. I have now been confined with cold and fever seven weeks, but one of my last visits was to our lamented friend’s grave, which, with the stone and inscription on it, was in perfect order. On the 16th of March I intend to have a bush of white roses planted near it, knowing that my good mother would have paid her that little tribute had she outlived her revered friend. The white rose she had planted on the grave of Mrs. P. (?) in the same churchyard (the mutual friend of both) continues to blossom every year, and now is a memorial to me and my good mother likewise.” FROM HERR WINNECKE (Assist. Astron. at Pulkowa.) “Travelling a few days ago through Hanover, I seized the opportunity of visiting Miss Caroline’s grave. Pastor Richter, her grand-nephew, took me to it. It is in the churchyard of the ‘Gartengemeinde,’ and in a good state of preservation; a heavy slab lies on it, on which is engraved a long inscription, composed by Miss Caroline herself. At the head is planted a rose-bush, from which I gathered the leaves which I enclose. I venture also to send two ‘shadow-outlines’ of Miss Caroline, which I had taken from a silhouette in the possession of Frau Dr. Groskopf.” _June 26, 1864._ INDEX. Academy, R. Irish, 300. Astronomical Society of London, 221, 271. Aubert, Alex., letter from Miss Herschel on discovering her first comet, 66; her third comet, 86. Baily, F., letter from Miss Herschel, 272-274; letter to her with his “Account of Flamsteed,” 281; her answer, 282. Baldwin, Miss, her marriage, 129; death, 132. Banks, Sir J., letter from William Herschel on his sister’s second comet, 84; from Miss Herschel on her third comet, 85; and her eighth, 94. Beckedorff, Miss, letters during the latter years of Miss Herschel’s life, 338-340, 343-345. Beckedorff, Mrs., 108. Blagden, Dr., letter from Miss Herschel about her first comet, 65. Brewster, Sir David, opinion of Miss Herschel’s catalogue of all the star-clusters and Nebulæ, 145, 146. Cambridge, Duke of, letter to Miss Herschel on the return of her nephew from the Cape, 292. Cape of Good Hope—Sir John Herschel leaves the Cape, 292. Collingwood, the seat of the Herschel family, 320. Comets, Miss Herschel’s first, 64; second, 80; third, 85; fifth, sixth, 93; eighth, 94. Cumberland, Duke of, proclaimed king of Hanover, 290. Dessau, Princess of Anhalt, letter to Miss Herschel, 267. Earthquake at Lisbon, sensation produced in Hanover, 6.