Changes the date of a Board of Visitors' meeting and urges JH to be there.
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Changes the date of a Board of Visitors' meeting and urges JH to be there.
Sends diagram of the 'little sweeper,' which is now at Hanover with 94-year-old Caroline Herschel.
Asks JH for description of JH's 'little sweeper' telescope; plans to give a sketch of it in WS's book.
Is sending him some new additions for the memoir by L. F. Menabrea. Mother keeps well.
Has a copy of F. W. A. Argelander's Uranometria. Comments on this in relation to the proposed revision of the constellations.
Has received his letter and incorporated the amendments in the paper.
Will try to attend meeting called by GA, although JH is plagued by rheumatism; comments on the periods of Saturn's satellites.
Was appointed assistant in [mineralogical and geological branch of] British Museum. Thanks for JH's support.
Disagrees with AW. Declines to intercede. [See AW's 1843-10-31].
G. B. Airy will be happy to receive JH tomorrow.
Continues the debate with T. R. Robinson [see Athenaeum, #830 (Sept. 23, 1843), 866-7; #831 (Sept. 30, 1843), 884; and #834 (Oct. 21, 1843), 945-6] on the quality of William Herschel's 40-foot reflecting telescope.
Reports observations of the comet of March 1843 [Great Comet of 1843] made from India by a Mr. Clerihew, who reported seeing a bifurcation of the comet's tail.
Recounts visit to Collingwood by the novelist Maria Edgeworth. Thanks WW for information on Charles Prichard and his school.
Would she read the enclosed letter and show the passage marked to Mrs. F. M. Wilson. This morning he dispatched to her a book and gloves. Will send the photographs and picture by some other means later.
Would like a copy of JH's pamphlet on Education written at the Cape. Did he ever receive the Perennial Calendar? Comments on recent falling stars. Does he know where Stephen Lee's Catalogue of Changing Stars is? Mr. Slegg's brother is in a mental home.