Plans to visit JH next week [to discuss color blindness].
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Plans to visit JH next week [to discuss color blindness].
Will bring [M. E.] Chevreul's color diagrams and new spectrum representation when he visits JH; confirms mode and date of arrival.
Thanks Herschels for their hospitality and tells about layers of volcanic ash encountered on a walk.
Regrets deeply having missed seeing JH. Sends greetings to JH's family. Enjoyed trip around British Isles. Will now continue scientific work.
Thanks for the gift of the book. Regarding some financial affairs of JH.
Hopes his health is improving. Where can he find the article expressing adjectives in algebraic symbols? Went to the R.A.S. in July and found much as usual. Mrs. De M. now at Hythe with the children. Elizabeth Baily appears to be in excellent health.
Invites FM to visit him at Collingwood on his return trip to Paris from the B.A.A.S. meeting in Dublin.
The letter contains financial arrangements with son John while still in England, extensive comments on the fighting and restructuring of the colonial system in India, some matters relating to earth strata, and finally an extended discussion of the 'Cavendish experiment' [for measuring the gravitational attraction between lead balls].