By A. W. Rücker, F.R.S., Professor of Physics in the Royal College of Science, London.

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SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL.

Ætat. 50.

(From Abbott’s painting in the National Portrait Gallery.)


THE CENTURY SCIENCE SERIES.

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