Wants to make a new musical instrument on the principle of resonance; JH also suggests some improvements in the construction of the organ.
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Wants to make a new musical instrument on the principle of resonance; JH also suggests some improvements in the construction of the organ.
About Henry Warburton's theorem, and the Gregorian calendar.
Comments on calculation by Frédéric Petit of the hyperbolic orbit of the meteor of 19 Aug. 1847.
About JH's poor health; some problems in perspective. Having read a book on Egyptology, JH wanders off in flights of fanciful numerology.
About JH's poor health; mentions discovery of two asteroids and new rings of Saturn.
Comments on astronomical discoveries, and depressing life in London.
Asks for the experience of other countries in introducing decimal coinage.
Thanks for AD's report on coinage [see JH's 1853-4-11], and for AD's puns.
JH looking for some writings by Isaac Newton while at the Mint, but most of that seems to have vanished.
Sends Henry Warburton's equation and integral; thanks AD for humorous story sent to Collingwood.
Accepts AD's correction regarding Henry Warburton's writings [see JH's 1854-11-2].
Comments on circulation of new coinage, and on another integral of Henry Warburton's.
Expresses great sorrow at the death of Richard Sheepshanks; JH has been ill for many months.
Comments on Francis Baily's travel writings and on Richard Sheepshanks's epitaph.
On AD's note on Richard Sheepshanks's writing on the standard yard.
On proper and bad Latin.
Comments on the state of JH's health, and on things astronomical and mathematical.
Thought that AD's last letter was supposed to be written in verse. Hopes his injury will soon improve. Does not recollect any habit of Humphry Davy rubbing his hands together. A professor, [G. J.?] Stoney, has re-invented JH's collimating telescope and not improved it.
Comments on the state of JH's health, color blindness, missing R.A.S. Notices, and decimal coinage.
Offers AD a puzzle and JH's solution to AD's problem about a body revolving in the evolute of an ellipse. On sending Francis Baily's correspondence to Greenwich.