From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
7 Feb 1836
Source of text:
MSB1 / 250, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
No summary available.
About an anomaly in one of JH's lists of observations.
Past difficulties and faults with running of Royal Observatory. Hopes Halley's Comet has been observed. Further information on the telescope presented to Cambridge Observatory by Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland). James Challis has succeeded GA at Cambridge. Proposed new railway near Royal Observatory and its effect on observations.