From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
4 January [1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.442
Summary:
Grateful for JH's translation of J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Comments on several points in the translation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Grateful for JH's translation of J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Comments on several points in the translation.
Approves GD's modification of driving wheel [for JH's actinoscope]. But GD's cost estimate exceeds total R.S.L. grant of £100. JH cannot approve more than £70; must have funds left for optics and clockwork mechanism.
Has taken a house in Bruges. Comments on some of his own recent work on stars. Strange reports in French newspapers of James South and his instruments. Does he know a cure for double vision? Sends drawing of a colored meteor. Has another paper by L. A. J. Quetelet on falling stars with which he disagrees.