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Abstract

THE intelligence of the death of Sir John Herschel will fall on the whole scientific world with a sense of personal bereavement. Though he had attained above the ordinary span of life, his mind was still in the maturity of its powers; and few men have been so familiarly known by their writings and their discoveries beyond the narrow pale of the world of science. Next week we hope to give a biography of the great astronomer whose loss we deplore. It is fitting that Herschel II. should be buried in Westminster Abbey, and it is creditable to the authorities that his ashes will be permitted to rest there.