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THE death of Prof. Alexander Stewart Herschel, F.R.S. on June 18 will be deplored by many astronomers. Prof. Herschel was born in 1836, and was the second son of Sir John Merschel. He was appointed profess of physics at the Durham College of Science, Newcastle on-Tyne, in 1871, and was honorary professor and governor of the college at the time of his death, though he left Newcastle about twenty years ago, and resided with his brother, Col. John Herschel, F.R.S., at Observatory House, Slough which was the home of his renowned grandfather, Sir William Herschel, and of his father, Prof. Herschel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1867, and of the Royal Society in 1884.
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DENNING, W. Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S. . Nature 76, 202–203 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076202a0
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