Announces 30 June meeting of Committee of Physics including Meteorology.
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Announces 30 June meeting of Committee of Physics including Meteorology.
Committee will meet next Monday to appoint 'a Master and Mistress.'
Prince Albert will meet R.S.L. Council next Thursday at Buckingham Palace.
Asks for JH's support at next week's vestry meeting. JH is entitled to six votes.
Announces meeting of R.S.L. Council on Saturday 27 June. [JH annotation: Received on '27th June!']
Formal statement that JH received parcel of manuscripts. Announces R.S.L. Council meeting for 9 July.
Received JH's letter of 4 Nov. [1829] in February. Sends report by university regents [to New York state legislature] and MW's [meteorological] observations. Will send more U.S. observations later.
Has no objection to the recipient's republication of the 'Examples of the Differ. & Integl Calculus by Mr. Peacock,' to which JH contributed.
Praises various photographs by WT and notes changes in some. Recounts optical experiments, recent and planned, by JH on rock-salt.
Gives JH's new address in Hawkhurst. Bring Mr. Bunt's planetarium when WW comes to Hawkhurst. Announces new photographic results.
Is grateful for his paper on the solar spectrum. Hopes he will continue his experiments with light so that posterity may benefit, as would have been the case if Smithson Tennant had persisted with his efforts. Regarding some of the geological theories of the times. Hopes JH will come and stay with them. R. I. Murchison is on the continent.
Sending officially the thanks of the Council of the R.A.S. to JH and Caroline Herschel for their gift of the telescope. Hopes JH will convey these thanks to Miss Herschel.