Has rewritten paper on leaf arrangement after criticism by Royal Society referees. Has found new factor influencing leaf arrangement, i.e., spontaneous variability in the number of vertical leaf-ranks.
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Has rewritten paper on leaf arrangement after criticism by Royal Society referees. Has found new factor influencing leaf arrangement, i.e., spontaneous variability in the number of vertical leaf-ranks.
Sends article on temporary color-blindness. G. B. Airy's book on sound [On Sound and Atmospheric Vibrations] is finished.
Observations on various forms of [hemianopsia], which afflicts HA, his father [G. B. Airy], and JH. Detailed description of recent attack. Seven sketches with captions.
JH's approval encourages HA to publish account [of hemianopsia]. JH may keep HA's drawings. Notes on attack suffered by JH.
Writing about [hemianopsia] for doctor's thesis at Cambridge. Asks permission to quote report of JH's attack [see JH's 1868-5-4].
Received JH's permission to quote JH [in HA's thesis on hemianopsia] and describe JH's latest attack, including 'patches of coloured checquer work.'
Describes difficulties in producing glass pen and attaching it to pendulum to produce precise curves for aligning equatorial [telescope mount]. Sent artistic sample to JH's wife.