Headlines of Issue No 113 (May 2002)

• AGM & lecture of WHS in March
  Please read the "Main article of the issue".
  
  
• Herschel Tour 2002 visits England
  This year's Herschel Tour since 15th to 22nd March participated the Annual General Meeting and Lecture of the William Herschel Society and visited Mr John Herschel-Shorland's Herschel Archives.
  
  
• W Herschel's invention of lamp-micrometer and lucid disk micrometer (2)
  The second part of the study by Mr Masao Nakazaki, a society member.
  
  
• John Feakins dies
  Unexpected sad news from the Isle of Wight reached to us on 12th March. Mr John Feakins died, who had frequently contributed various articles to our Newsletters.
  
  
• 2001 finance report
  

Main article of the issue

AGM & lecture of WHS in March

On 16th March the Annual General Meeting and Lecture of the William Herschel Society were held at the Pump Room in Bath, in which three HSJ members of Herschel Tour 2002 took part. A part of Chairman's report made by Prof F Ring was as follows:

This year has been active in terms of the local meetings and we are grateful to R Philips for organising the monthly lectures. 2001 saw the sad loss of two of our pioneers. Dr E Hilliard passed away at 98 who had bought with her husband 19 New King St and F Brown died who had been a founder member of WHS and the organiser as well as manager of the Herschel Ensemble during 1970's and 1990's. He found one of the ladies thought to be especially attentive to W Herschel.

Our thanks to R Philips for the hard work to produce the Speculum. We also appreciate the many years that Dr D Archer has given the Society as an Honorary Treasurer. We are delighted that our President received a knighthood and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. Sir P Moore gave the final talk in a series of RS Science Lectures the title of which was Caroline Herschel.

Followingly the finance report and Museum news were made. After the election of committee members, our Society was given time for a report as usual. My report in summary was as follows:

At the last AGM I mentioned our Society are proud of two kinds of creation - art works of Iizawa's cloisonné and Fukumura's metal specula. The former artist who had created plaques of Caroline's 8 comets against the background constellations organised exhibitions supported by our Society in Hokkaido last year and a new one to open in Tokyo soon. I trust her eminent technique and artistic sensitivity may be appreciated through photographs taken by me as much as her original works and have brought here three of them to show you. Different three are already at Prof Ring's hand. We expect some of these have a chance of being displayed in the Herschel Museum near future.

Our latter creation or a metal mirror of 15.7cm (f=220cm) has not yet been completed and Ogane who is another expert of mirror grinding brought it here from Japan just to show you. He promised to help Fukumura repolish and bring it again next March to be attached to Tabb's telescope model in the Museum.

The contents of our home page are recently very rich in Japanese and in English as well. Here are sample prints. Please visit and see Tatsuro Kimura, our web master's fine works.