Resolution reappointing JH and others to Lunar Committee to continue mapping surface of moon.
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Resolution reappointing JH and others to Lunar Committee to continue mapping surface of moon.
Resolution reappointing JH and others to Balloon Committee for further experiments.
Passes along a report that someone took a 4-foot telescope to the top of Snowdon [mountain], from where he could see the eight satellites of Saturn and the rings of Neptune.
A French civil engineer having proposed in the previous issue of the IO the idea of supporting roofs on the principle of the suspension bridge, JH reports that JH came up with this idea in 1836 and provides a sketch of such that JH made in that year.
Thanks JH for his expressions of goodwill and friendship. Asks for introductions to JH's friends in Cambridge.
Apologizes for JH not getting copy of vol. 3 of BP's Infinitesimal Calculus. Promises to send one. Hopes to add another volume. Asks JH about some problems in probability theory.
Sends, for JH's signature, request from daughter of the late W. R. Hamilton for continuance of Hamilton's pension.
JH's daughter Maria is getting married. JH has been ill. The Iliad translation is almost finished.
Thanks AS for his letter. Offers congratulations to newly married Maria Herschel. Will be returning to Cambridge to give his 46th course of lectures.
Was in Paris when JH's letter arrived. Will print JH's article. Asks if there are changes to be made. Discusses future project Physique sociale, which will include theory of probability applied to ethics and political science.
Asks JH to send memorandum about position of senior clerks at Royal Mint.
Is working on a problem in polarized light, and finds his result disagreeing with F. J. D. Arago's third law; leads JH to think light cannot be undulatory in nature.
Comments on GA's explanations about polarized light, and discusses GA's idea of the nature of light [see GA's 1865-10-18].
Realizes that GA is quite correct [see GA's 1865-10-30]; JH had neglected a basic principle about interference.
Asks if JH anticipated the results of W. L. Newman's work on lens curvature.
Announces a quarterly meeting of the Hawkhurst National School Board.
Requests JH's opinions on his theories of origins of language. Believes Hebrew is the root of all languages.
Appeal in J. S. Parlby case fails.
Saddened by the poor treatment of W. H. Smyth [see GA's 1865-10-18].
Concerning JH's memorial to W. R. Hamilton's daughter. Holiday in Keswick. Comments on JH's papers on optics and force.