A note about procedures for forwarding JH's papers to the Admiralty.
A note about procedures for forwarding JH's papers to the Admiralty.
A note accompanying a letter about meteorological and atmospheric investigations.
Admiralty not able to lend JH any further equipment to take on JH's expedition to the Cape.
Is forwarding a note about an instrument of [Louis] Daguerre's.
Sends JH a copy of Thomas Maclear's base measurements, and will transmit JH's letter to Maclear.
Thanks JH for his letters about the Cape equatorial instrument.
Sends JH a copy of sailing tables, and asks JH's opinion as to the value of printing them.
Financial matters are dealt with relating to the purchase of a telescope [for Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope].
Identifies the positive features of the aneroid barometer as in use by the Navy.
Anxious to have JH meet the new assistant, Pierce Newton, to be sent to the Cape Observatory.
Forwards a letter to JH from Thomas Maclear, and FB comments on several accidents that have occurred at the Cape.
Sends a note to JH that William Lassell [may use as a letter of introduction to the Governor of Malta]. FB hopes that Lassell will determine the longitude of Malta.
Indicates that trials have been made with a 'trumpeted cannon,' and JH is welcome to request further trials to be made at Woolwich Arsenal.
Asks JH for a copy of his Cape Results to be provided to the new Queen's College at Belfast.
A response to JH's actions in seeking a position for [?] Taylor.
Has prepared a room for him and Edward Sabine to discuss Australian affairs on Tuesday next.
Thanks for the congratulations. News of his daughter's marriage. Mrs. Beaufort would like to renew her acquaintance at some future date.
Is sending him the plans and report of Klip Fonteyn [?]. He will forward them later to the Astronomer Royal.
Has mentioned to Dr. T. R. Robinson their hopes of supplying the Cape Observatory with an equatorial telescope and theodolite. Encloses Robinson's comments. George Dollond would take two years to mount such a telescope. Curious paper in the Comptes rendus.
Has been requested in confidence to ascertain whether JH would be interested in accepting the Savilian professorship and the Radcliffe Observatory.