of being able to state that our results in most instances
confirm and establish my father's views in a remarkable manner.
These inquiries have taken me off the republication of his
printed papers for the present.

"I think I shall be adding more to his fame by pursuing and
verifying his observations than by reprinting them. But I have
by no means abandoned the idea. Meanwhile, I am not sorry to
hear they are about to be translated into German.... I hope
this season to commence a series of observations with the
twenty-foot reflector, which is now in fine order. The
forty-foot is no longer capable of being used, but I shall
suffer it to stand as a monument."

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In reference to this famous telescope, we may digress to state that its
remains have been carefully preserved.

The metal tube of the instrument, carrying at one end the recently
cleaned mirror of four feet ten inches in diameter, has been placed
horizontally in the meridian line, on solid piles of masonry, in the
midst of the circle where the apparatus used in manoeuvring it was
formerly placed. On the 1st of January 1840, Sir John Herschel, his
wife, their seven children, and some old family servants, assembled at
Slough. Exactly at noon the party walked several times in procession
round the instrument; they then entered the gigantic tube, seated
themselves on benches previously prepared, and chanted a requiem with
English words composed by Sir John Herschel himself. Then issuing from
the tube, they ranged themselves around it, while its opening was