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Thanks JW for his double star catalogue; JH comments on a few items contained therein.
Is grateful for JH's kind invitation to Collingwood, but regrets he cannot find time to come as he sails on the day after tomorrow and has much business to fit in before then.
Comments on WL's nebulae diagrams and asks for more.
Thanks for his letter. Will look forward to receiving his article in time for the July issue of the Quarterly Review.
Further about the paper referred to in GS's 1860-6-15.
Asks for information concerning the magnetic observations and compilations made in various countries and regions.
Describes a starfish brought alive to England from Iceland by an amateur naturalist.
Thanks JH for critiques of his paper; discusses Matthew Maury's work Physical Geography of the Sea.
Discusses atmospheric wave theory in reference to an experiment in JH's Meteorology. Describes weather patterns observed on the voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle.
Discusses James Stark's weather observations.
Asks JH's opinion of Charles Shadwell; wishes to elect him a Fellow of the R.S.L. Includes copy of letter of testimonial to Robert FitzRoy. Believes Shadwell's lunar work of great merit.
More rainfall data.
Thanks JH for his advice. Comments on various aspects of Iceland and Greenland.
W. H. Smyth wants another copy of JH's dialogue on atoms. W. H. Flower, Smyths' son-in-law, will have a paper published in R.S.P.T.
Signs Charles Shadwell's recommendation. Sends new maps of earth, which include more surface with less distortion. Sends copy of JH's Telescope.
Thanks for his article on the telescope. Comments on this. Sends another extract from a drinking song. Hopes that G. B. Airy will be the next president of the R.A.S.
Sends copies of observatory's printed reports, 1859-60.
Gives probability formula used to determine weights of stars 3 & 35 [see JH's 1860-11-2]. Explains calculation procedures previous to 1856 and those used since 1857.