Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] agrees to give G. F. G. Mathison annual allowance of £1200. Suspects mistake in report on Mathison.
Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] agrees to give G. F. G. Mathison annual allowance of £1200. Suspects mistake in report on Mathison.
JH and H. D. Harness may call on CT at Treasury whenever convenient.
Will seek approval from Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] for JH's new arrangement to pay Mint police.
Annual pension for G. F. G. Mathison was fixed by Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] at 'Fourteen Hundred Pounds (1200£).' JH and Henry Rich should submit formal report on this matter.
CT delays answering JH's letter of 3 Nov. 1851 until JH submits report on financial impact of changes in Engraving department after death of William Wyon.
What public service will L. C. Wyon render that justifies Wyon's annual salary of £400? Compares this with duties and salary of Benedetto Pistrucci. Suggests retaining Wyon at present salary of £200 and paying separately for piecework.
Grateful for JH's correction of CT's error in pension for G. F. G. Mathison [see CT's 1851-11-14]. This was CT's first such error in 25 years of public service.
Asks JH to join CW at meeting with governor of Bank of England [Thomson Hankey] on Monday to discuss coining matters. Thanks for JH's letters on quicksilver and on coinage.
Accepts JH's argument against coining gold dollar, but feels that two-dollar gold piece is needed. Reports plan to build mint in New South Wales. U.S. will establish mint in California.
About the establishment of a standard yard, and how the Kew Committee should proceed [see JH's 1851-11-5]; RS also plans to prepare standard thermometers. Received notice of William Lassell's discovery of more satellites of Uranus.
A note accompanying testimonials for a candidate for a Sydney University professorship [see JH's 1851-10-29].
Comments about some candidates for Sydney University professorships [see JH's 1851-10-29].
Does not believe the Australian gold rush should affect the selection process for Sydney University professors [see GA's 1851-11-18].
Read JH's Admiralty Manual meteorology article. Disagrees with statement regarding barometer and pressure of dry atmosphere. Discusses atmosphere and barometer at some length.
Noting discrepancy between dew points obtained by wet bulb and direct methods, WS cannot say which is nearer the truth; suspects that both have inaccuracies.
Encloses and comments on abstract of important manuscripts by the late English scientist [Henry] Cavendish.
Reports on and discusses applications of hourly wet bulb observations in ocean.
Sends memoirs on magnetism of crystalline bodies. Notes that remarks on atomic mechanism of Iceland spar contrast with JH's views expressed in JH's Light.
Letter in application for Professorship of Experimental Philosophy and Chemistry at University College, Sydney.
Regrets he has not been able to find anyone suitable for the chair of chemistry and natural philosophy at Sydney University.