Letter from C [Charles] Pritchard, Observatory, Oxford University, to 'Miss Herschel' He asks for a list of her grandfather's medals and distinctions, and for her [great] aunt's medal from the King of Prussia. The notice on William Herschel for Enclyclopaedia Britannica is near completion. Pritchard has re-read William Herschel's memoirs in Philosophical Transactions: Struve called him England's ablest astronomer and Pritchard calls him 'the Hipparchus of the Modern'. He describes his visit to Slough, with one [unnamed] member of the Herschel family. They visited the tomb, and found the 'zone clock' which Pritchard persuaded her brother to take away and clean it; it was in the tube. The big telescope was wonderful, but among the least of Herschel's achievements. 16 January 1880