Text Online
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 December 1835
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
No summary available.
Has just been made president of the R.A.S. No news of John Pond's retirement. R. A. Cauchoix's telescope has arrived. Printing of his 1834 observations are well advanced.
Sends his 1834 observations. Has received JH's weather observing instructions. Likely to accept the post of Astronomer Royal when John Pond resigns. Further remarks on new telescope and of E. J. Cooper's (near Sligo) - planetary disks - errors of divisions of circles. Possibility of small observatory in Upper Canada.