Will instruct Smith, Elder & Co. to provide a presentation copy of JH's Cape Results to Queen's College, Belfast. What has happened with JH's recommendation about Thomas Maclear's son [see JH's 1852-6-11]?
Will instruct Smith, Elder & Co. to provide a presentation copy of JH's Cape Results to Queen's College, Belfast. What has happened with JH's recommendation about Thomas Maclear's son [see JH's 1852-6-11]?
Asks JH for a copy of his Cape Results to be provided to the new Queen's College at Belfast.
A note accompanying a repayment of expenses incurred on behalf of some of JH's children.
Stopped compilation of comet orbits because it had already been done. Would provide money from donation fund to distribute copies of this information.
Mentions his stay at Pulkowa Observatory in 1844 and 1845. Refers to [Alexander von] Humboldt's Kosmos. Discusses a function of prisms in telescopes.
Interested in RM's statements on various subjects, including gold diggings and the 'declension of California Produce.'[?]
Encloses newly-discovered proof that John Forbes Watson's wet bulb depression was not a clerical error.
Approves of G. W. H. Maclear's appointment at Cape Observatory [Second Assistant]. JH's family will welcome G. W. H. Maclear to Collingwood during his England visit.
Asks JH for Christian names of colleague.
Thinks that a note must have miscarried as he is sure he informed him that the Admiralty had appointed Thomas Maclear's son [George Maclear] an assistant at the Cape and his other son [John Maclear] to a ship.
Per JH's directions, sent copies [of JH's Cape Results] to Queen's College, Belfast. Awaiting JH's instructions for dispatching few remaining presentation copies to institutions abroad.