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III. IN the concluding chapter of his Memoir Prof. Holden presents a Review of the scientific labours of William Herschel designed to enable the general reader to follow the course of his work and discoveries, astronomical and physical, referring to the Analyse de la Vie et des Travaux de Sir William Herschel, published by Arago in 1842 for a more detailed and precise account suited to the professional astronomer; also to “A Subject-Index and a Synopsis of the Scientific Writings of Sir William Herschel,” prepared by himself and Dr. Hastings, and forming one of the publications of the Smithsonian Institution.
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HIND, J. Sir William Herschel 1 . Nature 23, 573–575 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023573a0
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