Headlines of Issue No 111 (January, 2002)

• 2001 Annual Convention
  Please read the "Main article of the issue".
  
  
• Herschel Tour to England in March
  A notice on a tour to UK around the annual general meeting of the William Herschel Society on 16th March.
  
  
• From the home page of the Society
  An introduction of an article and an appeal for links and contributions to the home page.
  
  
• A picture of the 17th HSJ Annual Meeting
  A colour photo page.
  
  
• A big family now - Charlotte Herschel-Dunkerley
  A Herschel descendant was married last summer.
  
  
• Frank Spencer Brown (1923-2001)
  Mrs P Wilkes wrote to the Society to report Mr Brown's death.
  
  
• Which Leonid was more active, in Nov 2001 or Alex Herschel watched in1866?
  John Herschel's second son Alexander observed in 1866 the Leonid great shower, which attracted people's attention last autumn as well. Mr Fukumura, a member of the Society made a observation report.
  
  

Main article of the issue

2001 Annual Convention

Our Society held the 2001 annual convention at Toranomon Astronomical Hall from 14:00 in the 10th November last year. The first report was "the Society's Newsletters" (S Kimura) and many members made reports as follows:

• The Society's homepage (T Kimura)
• Born in 1913, 70 years of astronomical studies (S Morikubo)
• 2001 Herschel Tour (Y Ogane)
• A 16 cm metal speculum, VTR and comments (H Fukumura)
• Japan Astronomical Reference Centre (O Shigehisa)
• CloisonnÉ works (N Iizawa)

Various questions and opinions flew about from Society members toward reports made by Mr Fukumura and Ms Iizawa on their creative work, even though they were active in different fields; craft and art. Mr Morikubo, still vigorous in his age, mentioned that he felt interesting to see the homepage of the Society to which Mr T Kimura had made an effort for three years.

We moved to a restaurent for dinner, putting off discussion on the activities plan in the coming year.