Pleased that JH's son [John] will examine the chemical intensity of the sun during the eclipse. Offers suggestions for successful experiment. Sends paper regarding chemical intensity at the tropics.
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Pleased that JH's son [John] will examine the chemical intensity of the sun during the eclipse. Offers suggestions for successful experiment. Sends paper regarding chemical intensity at the tropics.
The Berlin Academy has decided to publish Charles Rümker's observations, thus removing the problem from the hands of the B.A.A.S. [see JH's 1866-7-13].
Sends copy of B.A.A.S. resolution regarding telescope in India. ES and R.S.L. colleagues agree to take no further steps in matter.
Glad to have met JH's son [John]. Describes benefits of [R.S.L.] meetings for cultivation of science.
Asks JH to send an actinometer to Kew. It will be forwarded with other meteorological instruments to the Paris Exhibition.
[Charles] Darwin and [William] Fairbairn have started a certificate describing JS's contributions to science. Asks whether JH would sign it.
Has decided to accept papers treating of new researches. These will be inserted prominently in journal [Quarterly Journal of Science]. Would be happy to hear from JH.
In London for a short time. Wants to meet JH and will come to see him the following day.
Discusses displaying solar autographs to the best advantage. Invites JH's son Alexander to read his meteor paper at the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Discusses Aristotle's and Richard Whately's descriptions of the sensitivity of the eye's lateral areas. Asks JH to review cover sheet and opine whether the predictions described are miracles.
Dr. [Edward] Goulburn, not WS, is Dean of Norwich. Is trying to refute the position of David Hume that miracles are violations of nature.
Thanks JH for a 'corrected edition of Deambulatz.' [?] Angelo Secchi has been at Cambridge. Is making composite photographs showing the activity of the sun and planets in the last year.
Lack of circularity in some solar autographs is due to clouds. Discusses a quote regarding stars in the Southern Hemisphere. Also, Aristotle's examination of the eye.
Sends JH a copy of 'Enoch.' Thanks JH for his helpful criticisms.
Discusses translation of 'Enochus.' Thanks JH for the 'Rex Colius,' which amused Adam Sedgwick and WS.
Discusses the translation of 'Enochus' and various suggestions he has been given for its improvement.
Apologizes for not writing sooner. Busy with trip to Italy. Announces intention to dedicate entire next year to his Physique sociale. Thanks JH for his comments on AQ's son's work on temperature. Also grateful for commendation on AQ's history of science. Brings up AQ's son's work on proper motion.
Discusses coming year. Asks JH how to deal with JH's review [of AQ's Lettres sur la théorie des probabilités]. Talks about his friend [Michel] Chasles. Also about AQ's son. Mentions JH's translation of [J. C. F. von] Schiller's 'Spaziergang.'
Comments on the use of different telescopes and their effect on the albedo of the sun, related to solar eclipses [see JH's 1867-5-5].
Asks whether Michael Faraday's work with glass resulted in improved manufacturing or if rather its main scientific value was in discovery of diamagnetism.