Requesting JH's autograph.
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Requesting JH's autograph.
Thanks for JH's kindness and the good things sent. Now sends a specimen of what photography can achieve on a large scale.
Replies to JH's inquiries about Messier 80, noting that a bright star, since vanished, obliterated the cluster. Describes poor but improving instrumentation at the Madras Observatory. Asks about JH's son Alexander.
Sends Mathematical Monthly with JH's portrait and catalog of his writings. Smithsonian will send rain data JH wants. Discusses politics and hopes England will help break the cotton monopoly and thereby end slavery.
Discusses Galileo's unpublished letter on sunspots. Outlines comparisons between tropical storms and sunspots as discussed at Cambridge Philosophical Society. Wishes to meet [Frederick] Howlett to discuss sunspots.
Asks for his comments on the results of his Magnetic Register 1848-1857.
Further remarks concerning his Magnetic Registers [see GA's 1861-4-22].
Regarding the evaporation of water as a source of electricity. Magnetic results in relation to the North Atlantic.
Thanks for JH's paper 'On a New Projection of the Sphere.' Wonders why no one has discussed this important problem before.
Questions arising from JH's 'On a New Projection of the Sphere.' Will send his solution if JH is interested.
Is sending one of his own pamphlets which may interest JH. Hopes he is enjoying better health now he has resigned from the Mint.
Sends photographic copy of mural tablet TW placed in chapel of St. John's College to honor TW's late uncle, Thomas Catton.
Cannot lay his hands on JH's paper at the moment. Family is going on well. Will send details of the secret code of Army signals.