Formal note of thanks for TA's paper on ozone.
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Formal note of thanks for TA's paper on ozone.
Lectures AH on the 'examination paper of life' after AH had complained that he was disgusted by a college examination.
Complaining about the recent wet weather.
Comments on the state of JH's health, and on things astronomical and mathematical.
Thought that AD's last letter was supposed to be written in verse. Hopes his injury will soon improve. Does not recollect any habit of Humphry Davy rubbing his hands together. A professor, [G. J.?] Stoney, has re-invented JH's collimating telescope and not improved it.
Comments on the state of JH's health, color blindness, missing R.A.S. Notices, and decimal coinage.
Is concerned about the receipt of AH's accounts; lectures AH about the danger of moving into someone else's room [more luxurious] for the vacation; finally asks AH to discover who among the 'university-men' is color-blind, and to what degree.
Plans to sell JH's property at Upton, including tenement Holloway occupies, to neighbors.
Compliments HW's expression for the formula for coefficients of differences of the odd powers of zero. JH busy, but hopes soon to develop demonstration.
Happy to hear that [new Sydney mint] is going well. JH confined with painful illness since Mar. 1855; still unable to walk or stand upright without support. Aluminium may be used in coins, but JH doubts it will replace iron in pots and pans. War is ended, but people worry about further Russian aggression.
Deals with the computation of a tax matter [regarding Observatory House in Slough?].
Conveys his confidence in the appropriateness of the certificate of proficiency awarded by the Society of Arts to men who have done well on the Society's examination.
Has no changes to make in JH's Admiralty Manual.
JH, having examined the accounts, finds the charges for the medals fit with Leonard C. Wyon's agreement.
Declares his confidence in the certificates of proficiency about to be awarded by the Society of Arts.
Sorry to have given him the trouble over the box; sends the required letter. Unfair of the Times to blame AH for the disasters in the Crimea.
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