In addition to her arduous and engrossing duties as secretary and assistant to her brother, Caroline found time to prepare a number of works for the press. Among these were a _Catalogue of Eight Hundred and Sixty Stars Observed by Flamsteed but not Included in the British Catalogue_ and _A General Index of Reference to Every Observation of Every Star in the Above-mentioned British Catalogue_. She had the honor of having these two works published by the Royal Society. Another, and a more valuable work, was _The Reduction and Arrangement in the Form of Catalogue, in Zones, of All the Star-Clusters and Nebulae Observed by Sir W. Herschel in His Sweeps_. It was for this catalogue that a gold medal was voted to her by the Royal Astronomical Society in 1828--a production that was characterized as "a work of immense labor" and "an extraordinary monument to the unextinguished ardor of a lady of seventy-five in the cause of abstract science." To her nephew, Sir John Herschel, it proved invaluable, as it supplied the needful data "when he undertook the review of the nebulae of the northern hemisphere." It was also a fitting prelude to Sir John's _Cape Observations_, a copy of which great work she received from her nephew nearly twenty years subsequently, after he had completed his famous observations of the southern heavens in his observatory at the Cape of Good Hope. "By a most striking and happy coincidence," writes Mrs. John Herschel, "she, whose unflagging toil had so greatly contributed to its successful prosecution in the hands of her beloved brother, lived to witness its triumphant termination through the no less persistent industry and strenuous labor of his son; and her last days were crowned by the possession of the work which brought to its glorious conclusion Sir William Herschel's vast undertaking--_The Survey of the Heavens_." That Miss Herschel's labors in the cause of astronomy were appreciated by her contemporaries is evidenced by the honors of which she was the recipient. The first of these honors came in the form of a gold medal, unanimously awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society for her reduction of twenty-five hundred nebulae "discovered by her illustrious brother, which may be considered as the completion of a series of exertions probably unparalleled either in magnitude or importance in the annals of astronomical labor." It was on this occasion, when referring to the immensity of the task which Sir William Herschel had undertaken, that the vice-president of the society paid a deserving tribute to the great astronomer's devoted sister, in which is found the following statement: