GP prefers to meet on Saturday at Somerset House, rather than on Friday as JH proposed.
GP prefers to meet on Saturday at Somerset House, rather than on Friday as JH proposed.
Accepts JH's invitation to attend the meeting [see JH's 1844-11-1], and offers JH accommodation for the night.
Sends actinometer observations of 1841 and 1842, which he will publish. Asks JH to look them over and make comments.
Discusses ES's experiments with convertible and travelling pendulums. Asks how 'für vaterländische Cultur' is to be translated for the list of societies.
Pleased that JH agrees on removal of tail pieces and moveable weights from pendulums. Discusses pendulum experiments in air and vacuums.
Discusses the best pendulum models inside and outside a vacuum apparatus. ES will be given credit for improving the manipulation of pendulums. Makes several other comments regarding pendulums.
Will attend to JH's wishes regarding the correspondence. Discusses the buoyancy correction for particular types of pendulums. Asks if JH has received the magnetic results from Geneva.
Responds to ES's request for JH's remarks on the mode of registering and printing the actinometer observations.
Regrets that he cannot offer JH the information he needs regarding the stature of service-men, but suggests places for further searching. Shares observations about relationships between dew point and barometer.
[John] Lee has a silhouette of Caroline Herschel as a young lady; would JH like it? Discusses whether JH should include Francis Baily's relationship to his family in JH's memoir on Baily. Names those to whom he plans to give copies of Baily's portrait.
Does not think Francis Baily's relatives should take part in JH's presentation on Baily to the R.A.S., but if they have asked to do so, they should not be refused. Would like a copy of Caroline Herschel's silhouette. Is'facing the engraver's hands' with his nebula, and must get the plate of JH's portrait, which RS placed at the disposal of the Duke of Northumberland.
Adds remarks to his previous comments [JH 1344-11-17] on Francis Baily's relatives participating in the memorial to Baily.
Clarifies a point raised in an earlier letter about JH being the proper person to deal with the relatives of Francis Baily. On the mishandling of arrangements for Baily's portrait by the R.A.S. On [W. S.] Stratford's poor leadership in this matter.
Regrets his delay in not returning F. W. Bessel's letter. Observations arising from this letter.
Inquires about the possibility of holding a Standards Commission meeting on the Royal Observatory's Visitation Day.
JH has forgotten to name the day of his arrival. Can he let Elizabeth Baily know? Thinks he did the right thing in staying at Tavistock Place.
Sends a list of James Dunlop's nebulae.
Making arrangements to stay with GA when JH comes for a meeting.
Apologizes for blunder in account. Encloses £1.
Sends papers and new book on 'Chemical influence of Light' by JD. Received JH's papers. Apologizes for failing to give JH discovery credit. Notes on light interference.