Is grateful for the testimonial JH has given him; it will be useful.
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Is grateful for the testimonial JH has given him; it will be useful.
Is glad he is pleased with the work of Balfour Stewart and himself. Has applied to R.S.L. for a further grant to carry on the observations and computations for another year. Intends to finance the last year himself. Since the death of his brother he has returned to business.
Announcing the death of her husband Augustus.
Has sent a work on the metric system in France, which includes JH's own valuable lecture.
Is grateful for his comments on his own paper on vision. Would he refer him to the work by Mr. Chopal on lens.
Relating his recent experiments in dioptrics. Encloses a model of his air-lens. Is grateful for the reference.
Report on late JH's manuscript on General History of Double Stars, bequeathed to R.A.S.
Turned JH's mineral specimen over to N. S. Maskelyne. Poor health of GW's wife.
Sends prints of solar photographs taken last week at Kew, as requested by Warren de La Rue. Regrets that picture on 11 Feb. was unsatisfactory.
In Nov. 1864, R.A.S. council instructed secretary Charles Pritchard to write to JH regarding tables by late [W. L.] Newman of York, but JW finds no evidence that Pritchard complied. Cannot find Newman's tables. Pritchard may have taken them.
Has sent JH a copy of his new book [The Sun].
Raises objections to JH's theory of the solar corona. Discusses possible existence of extensive meteoric dust in the solar system. Requests permission to dedicate a book on sidereal astronomy to JH. Asks JH whether his father in later years always used a front focus for his large telescopes and whether he saw the supposed four additional Uranian satellites with his 40-foot reflector.
Discusses JH's response to his comments on JH's theory of the solar corona. Discusses great difficulty of writing his planned book on sidereal astronomy.
Reports on recent solar eclipse photographs of the solar corona which jeopardize JH's meteoric theory of the corona's origin. Concludes the corona must be 'after all a phenomenon of eruption!!'
Suggests that meteors come sometimes from the sun, more typically from other stars.
Outlines the recent work in terrestrial magnetism by H. T. R. Petersen and himself. Comments on their results.
Thanks JH for assistance in settling matters with the B.A.A.S.; comments about travel plans and magnetic observations.
Regrets that his bad handwriting caused JH to misread some of his remarks. Will try to produce a clearer exposition of his results. Comments on his expositions.
Sends [T. F.?] Fremantle's first annual report. [Richard?] Roberts memo was drawn up from information obtained from himself. Has now retired, but with no great financial assistance.
B.A.A.S. has announced its intention of giving up Kew Observatory. What does he think of the possibility of the R.S.L. taking it over for Magnetic Observations? Sends a copy of the Kew report, also a copy of a letter from [Balfour] Stewart.