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Comments on some incorrect attributions to JH.
Comments on WJH's appointment as judge in India. Contrasts legal practices in England and India. Reviews calamities WJH witnessed in India. Alexander Herschel is lecturing about eclipse at Royal Institution and Leamington. Family news. P.S.: Please write to W. E. Hearn in Melbourne regarding Hearn's book Government of England.
Received [?]'s paper no. 10, which completes JH's collection. Returns duplicates of [?]'s papers on Kew and Nerchinsk 'disturbances' and on 'Residual Laws of disturbance.'
Receives Mary Somerville's autobiography; explains poor health will prohibit him from detailed scrutiny of the writing.
Expresses thanks for receiving the 1868 volume of the Transactions of the Society of Engineers.