Encloses a letter from a Mr Hill on some [unspecified] legal matter.
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Encloses a letter from a Mr Hill on some [unspecified] legal matter.
Asks GHD to send a copy of his "paper on the moon" [probably Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 171 (1880): 713–891] to V. O. Kovalevsky.
Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].
Gives news of friends.
Has sent Kovalevsky his major paper on the moon’s motion, with references to others.
Encloses letter from R. S. Ball [missing], who has placed reliance on Samuel Haughton’s wild speculations.
Has heard that J. Challis’s health is worse.
Has sent last week’s Nature wth J. S. Newberry’s paper ["Hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 357–8]. CD thinks Newberry is right. This week’s issue has a letter against Newberry by Charles Callaway ["Letters to the editor: hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 385].
The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched a series by scientists in the Contemporary Review on what is known and what is theoretical in science. [The series appears to have begun with an article by Robert S. Ball, "The boundaries of astronomy", 41 (1882): 923–41]. CD was asked to participate, but refused.
Advises his children as to how some money will be distributed among them.