Examples from Iliad and other sources to show that military offensive tactic called 'Vertical Fire' did not originate with [L. N. M.] Carnot, as Mr. Mallet claimed in recent issue of Budget.
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Examples from Iliad and other sources to show that military offensive tactic called 'Vertical Fire' did not originate with [L. N. M.] Carnot, as Mr. Mallet claimed in recent issue of Budget.
Needs address of [H. J. R.] Petersen of Kiel, to whom JH must send grant of £50 from B.A.A.S. for reduction of Gaussian constant. Gives address of G. A. Erman. JH's poor health.
Thanks WS for volunteering to forward B.A.A.S. grant to G. A. Erman while JH is ill.
About the health of Richarda Airy and that of JH.
Forwards letter from G. A. Erman of Berlin requesting that B.A.A.S. fund [H. J. R.] Petersen's study of terrestrial magnetism.
Corrects date on publication by G. A. Erman.
Please clarify FW's request for testimonial from JH to assist FW in obtaining better appointment. JH does not know FW's capabilities and can testify only to good character of FW's family.
Gratitude for copy of Bank's published volume on gold coinage controversy. Regrets that volume does not contain letter to the Times containing U.S. assay master W. E. Du Bois's testimony to integrity of British gold coinage, 'a most satisfactory answer to Mr. Segal's charge against it.'
Writes to support grant request from Georg Erman of Berlin to allow Erman to do calculations on magnetism observations from circumnavigation of world.
In commenting on a paper on actinometric measurements varying with depth of atmosphere, JH questions the accuracy of the equipment used.
Thanks for grant of £50 from B.A.A.S. for calculations related to request from Georg Erman [see JH's 1870-5-6].
Requests some rewording of B.A.A.S. resolution [see JH's 1870-9-27].
Has received, through the good offices of the Smithsonian Institution, a number of back issues as well as current issues of the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. The best way to send these volumes is by way of the Smithsonian.
Asks a whole series of silly riddles, and JH complains of not having heard from AD.
Comments on use of 'air' lens rather than glass in some circumstances.
About a grant to support [H. J. R.] Petersen while he carries out the reduction of terrestrial magnetic observations.
Thanks CB for receipt of a meteorological work by CB's son [B. H. Babbage], now in Australia. JH says he grows stupider every day and is a 'prisoner in the bonds of bronchitic tyranny.'
Is pleased to hear of signs of recovery for RM from his ill health, and all wish him a complete recovery.
Comments on the effect of great temperature variations on the speculum of a telescope.
Responds that R. A. Proctor's theory [see GA's 1870-2-5] is possible, and explains why.