Herschel
SIR JOHN FREDER- ing rays beyond the red extremity of ICK WILLIAM, an English astronomer the spectrum. In 1820 he was elected and physicist; only son of Sir William the first President of the Royal Astronomical Society, and published in the first volume of its "Transactions" a paper on 145 new double stars. He died in Slough, near Windsor, England, Aug. 25, 1822.
Herschel; born in Slough, near Windsor, England, March 7, 1792. In 1813 he graduated at Cambridge. He spent eight years reviewing the nebulæ and clusters of stars discovered by his father. The results were given in 1833 to the Royal Society in the form of a catalogue of stars. In 1830 he produced his excellent "Preliminary Discourse on the spectrum; they were first discovered by Study of Natural Philosophy." In 1834 he established, at his own expense, an observatory at Feldhuysen, near Cape Town, Africa. He returned to England in 1838 and in 1847 published "Results of Astronomical Observations made during 1834-1838 at the Cape of Good Hope, being the Completion of a Telescopic Survey of the Whole Surface of the Visible Heavens." He was one of the earliest pioneers in photography; and on the queen's coronation he was created a baronet. Among his other works are "Outlines of Astronomy," "Far Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects," and a translation of the Iliad in verse. He died May 11, 1871.