Thanking him for offer of assistance. Will call on him and give him papers for the Astronomical Society.
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Thanking him for offer of assistance. Will call on him and give him papers for the Astronomical Society.
Remarks on the R.S.L. Has written to J. B. Biot. Regarding the annual report. Needs a new council for the Astronomical Society. Please send him some copies of the rules. Meeting of Society of Arts. His recent chemical experiments. James South was with him last week and carried out observations.
Suggestions for the wording of the annual report of the Astronomical Society. Wishes to propose a medal to be awarded for the theory of Saturn's satellites. Regarding the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge.
Hopes to call on Thursday to discuss queries. Regarding recent astronomical experiments. Alterations to his twenty-foot telescope.
Regarding W. T. Brande's recent attack on the Astronomical Society. The Board of Longitude and its dealings with CB. Has met Henry Warburton recently.
Would CB breakfast with JH in order to meet members of the Correction Committee.
Please forward the address of H. Meikle, the computer.
No need for meeting of Correction Committee. Will be in town on Friday and hopes to meet him.
Is glad he is coming on Tuesday. Regarding the parcel of books from Vienna. Recent experiments with mercury.
Would like to visit this week. Has had an attack of rheumatic fever. Gives tables of orbit of a comet.
Regarding barometric observations.
Regarding their chances of obtaining a professorship at Cambridge.
Regarding W. T. Brande's attack on Sir Joseph Banks, and its relation to the Council of the Astronomical Society.
Please forward enclosed note to Mrs. Roget [wife of P. M. Roget?]. Various items of interest.
Tells CB that JH has seen a calculating machine made by some 'rascally frenchman'.
Has had a letter from the Secretary of the Dijon Academy offering him and CB the title of Non-Resident Associate of the Academy. Is there any chance of seeing him in the near future?
Query regarding the construction of a model of a machine for CB. CB's letter to Humphry Davy about his engines. He will be visiting the Netherlands shortly. P. S. Laplace has sent him details of his recent researches into gases. Hopes the family are well after their recent visit to Devon.
Caroline and Dietrich Herschel leave for Rotterdam in two days. CB's 'offer of the heretifical Robes' and 'sacrilegious stain.' Thank [Woolrych Whitmore] for agricultural pamphlet sent to JH and [Richard] Jones. Sent CB's letter to Humphry Davy and others.
Destroy or return the article given him on Thursday. Has found something better.
Regarding the Cambridge affair. Has had a letter from the Edinburgh Society of Arts.