Glad that JH accepted Mastership of Mint. Will provide annual housing allowance of £500. George Grey will take steps necessary to put JH into office.

Directs JH to investigate international supply and demand for gold and silver and to make projection for next twenty years. Refer to [J. R.] Macculloch and [James?] Wilson for information.

Grateful for JH's letters of introduction. Met Prince Albert. Edward Sabine arranged for meteorological observations in Alps by AS and brother Hermann to be published by Longmans. Plans more observations of geology and atmospheric chemistry. Alexander Humboldt advised AS to ask JH where to apply for financial support.

Will contact JH when RS returns to London.

Returned from Ireland. Invites JH to call on RS.

Needs to know date of JH's [letters] patent, to compute salary for RS's final pay period as Master of Mint.

Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] will see JH at noon tomorrow.

Encloses copies of papers from R. L. Sheil. Originals will be sent later.

Encloses note from [W. P.] Wilson explaining need for astronomical instruments for instructing advanced students at Belfast. Asks JH's advice. Congratulations on JH's appointment to Mastership of Mint. [JH annotation: Suggests appropriate instruments.]

Thanks for signing certificate for [C. M.] Elliott. Sends extracts from George Buist's history of heat storms in India, with evidence of great masses of ice dropped by these storms.

Received series of actinometer observations from [Joseph] Dayman aboard Rattlesnake. JH's trip to Continent. Completion of Francis Ronalds's magnetographs. Improved access to Kew Observatory by railway. Next committee meeting. Bakerian lecture by Michael Faraday.

Congratulates JH on appointment to Mastership of Mint. Hopes JH, as member of Cambridge University Commission, will introduce needed reforms.

JH's security as Master of Mint may be met with deposit of £10,000 of stock plus personal bond of £10,000, or with £20,000 of stock.

Fees paid on appointment of private individuals were reduced but not abolished. JH's fee upon appointment as Master of Mint will be two-thirds of former fee for that office.

Asks JH to call on CW tomorrow.

Encloses two letters from WW, one to R. L. Shiel in Oct. 1850, and one to JH, as Shiel's successor, dated 17 Dec. 1850. Both letters state WW's response to Shiel's announcement of proposed changes in organization of Mint. Appeals to JH to reconsider plan to deprive WW of use of Mint machinery for WW's private engraving contracts. Protests abolition of office of probationer engraver, for which WW's son has been training.

Offers congratulations on JH's new position [Master of Mint]. Recalls 'our water-pipe operations at Cape Town fifteen years ago' [1835]. Speculates on water wave theory. Pity for 'poor Charles Bell.'

Suggests changes in statutes governing colleges.

Royal warrant appointing John Graham, George Peacock, JH, John Romilly, and Adam Sedgwick to constitute Cambridge University Commission.

Astronomical queries, with particular reference to the Coal Sack. [Probably to JH, but unclear from letter.]