Enquires whether JH wants a paper published in R.S.P.T. or in R.S.L. Proceedings.

Further about the paper referred to in GS's 1860-6-15.

According to JH's instructions, portrait of late Robert Stephenson will be sent to 37 Tavistock Place. Thanks for JH's approval of paper on color blindness by CM's friend Mr. Pole. Would Pole be eligible for R.S.L. membership?

Received JH's letter and enclosure of yesterday. Gave instructions to refuse newspapers arriving for JH without postage from Cape of Good Hope.

Sent proof for vol. 2 of St. Helena observations to JH. JH's promised article in Edinburgh Review on progress in science of terrestrial magnetism. Embarrassing delay by government in responding to Prince Albert's request for five-year magnetic survey is resulting in loss of interest among prospective directors. Proposal by Americans to assume leadership of survey in North America. Dutch observatory in Java and Jesuit observatory in Cuba.

A. D. Bache reports that U.S. will establish magnetic observatory in Washington Territory. ES is preparing instructions for North American survey. Suggests change to JH's proposed article on terrestrial magnetism in Edinburgh Review.

[Government refusal to support five-year magnetic survey] has eliminated services of T. W. Blakiston and Thomas Hull as directors of two magnetic observatories. Instruments for Montreal observatory. Recent magnetic changes in North America. Success of elder B. C. Brodie's eye operation.

Bibliography of works on terrestrial magnetism published in past four years.

Sent packet to JH last week containing publications listed in ES's bibliography of recent magnetic surveys.

Summary of research on terrestrial magnetism in other countries. Will send paper on magnetic storms to JH.

Sends sample sheets of magnetic reductions from continual observations photographed at Kew. Explains reduction formulas. Will send to JH new paper by ES on lunar diurnal variation. Carlo Matteucci reports interest by new government in Naples in reviving meteorological observatory there.

Asks JH to comment on ES's paper, which will be read to R.S.L. on 10 Jan. Corrects errors in two earlier letters to JH. Will adopt 'Photograms' instead of 'Photographs.'

[Form Letter] GA's address, as Astronomer Royal, to Board of Visitors. Progress report on F. G. W. Struve's proposal for joint French-English-Belgian triangulation survey.

Sends 'something about the Moon.' It is all the printer has produced so far.

Urges JH to attend the next meeting of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory, especially as GA believes some of the members of the Board do not understand the scientific problem [?].

Circular letter advising of the availability of back copies of various Royal Observatory printed observations.

Dissatisfied with [F. W. A.] Angelander's nomenclature of variable stars; seeks JH's approval of NP's nomenclature for the new 'Hartwell Atlas of Variable Stars.'

Thanks JH for supporting his proposed method of designating variable stars, adding that G. B. Airy, J. R. Hind, and W. H. Smyth also accept it. Hopes to succeed M. J. Johnson as director of Oxford's Radcliffe Observatory.

Has heard that JH's son [Alexander] is observing variable stars at Charles Pritchard's school. Gives latest data on these stars. Suggests other variables to observe. Has adopted JH's proposal of using Julian day numbers for dating variables in his catalogue of variables.

Thanks JH for 'testimonial' to the Radcliffe Observatory on his behalf, but the response is not encouraging. Describes the tribulations of his career in astronomy. Makes further suggestions regarding the variable stars being observed by JH's son [Alexander].