Has just confirmed the Hawkhurst apportionment; comments on this. Encloses a copy of the notice.
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Has just confirmed the Hawkhurst apportionment; comments on this. Encloses a copy of the notice.
Sending a description of the observatory he has erected, containing an equatorially mounted Newtonian reflector. Has high opinion of its efficiency. Has detected a sixth star near the trapezium of Orionis.
Comments on WL's finding a sixth star in the trapezium of Orion [see WL's 1842-3-10]; lists other catalogues that identify that star.
Received JH's constellation reform paper. Reports on triangulation at Zwartland and observations of possible variable stars. Obelisk at Feldhausen erected; relates controversies over the site.
Sends a memoir he has scribbled off for next Wednesday's meeting. Would like JH's advice on several points.
Many thanks for JH's explanations, which gave satisfaction to the geologists. Gives two queries of his own for which he would like clarification. Can they print JH's Alpine phenomena memoir?
Has only just received JH's parcel dispatched some six months ago, due to lack of transport during the winter months. JH's poem on the Old Telescope has been in great demand. Pass the enclosed to Miss Hamilton. Would like an autograph of JH for her album.
About arrangements to visit JH at Collingwood.
Encloses newspaper clipping that reports JH is member of commission of inquiry on weights and measures. Protests that the poor are defrauded more by false scales than by nonstandard weights. Proposes remedy.
Sends works on meteorology and instructions for natural periodic phenomena. More proselytes in horary observations. Asks for JH's recommendations for those observing meteors in the other hemisphere.
Believes that the operative rays in JH's thermographic process are neither 'calorific' nor 'thermal'.
Remarks that he is 50 years old, and that he and CH have 'seen something of that odd and most changeable compound called Human Nature.'
Regarding JH's receipt of the 'Standard' reports. Remarks on the electrometer and barometer in the recent storm.
Regarding his letter writing. Has a promise of a trip on the Dover Railway.
Hopes to meet JH on 29 March.
Proposes to come to London to visit him. Has just received the proofs of Robert Maine's paper on parallax.
Arranging a visit for GA to Collingwood.
Final arrangements for GA's visit to JH [see GA's 1842-3-15].
Has received from William Lassell some of the new observations he carried out with his new 9" speculum. Comments on these and various clusters of stars changing their position.
Appreciates receiving the curious fossil, even though JH knows little of such matters.