Found article with good description of Bank act. PR's ideas regarding issuance of currency notes.
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Found article with good description of Bank act. PR's ideas regarding issuance of currency notes.
GS believes he erred in his 1865-6-1; now writes to correct it.
Asks JH to consider revising report on a paper.
Sends additional meteorological data for 10-12 Jan. 1865, showing effect of full moon on cloud cover.
Resolution reappointing JH and others to examine K. L. C. Rümker's astronomical observations in southern hemisphere and determine if these should be published.
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.
Acknowledgement of order from JH, and clarification of instructions.
A letter from the Secretary of R. S. L. asking JH to review several papers. [Appended is a copy of JH's review in draft form.]
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 tributes to memory of her father [Josiah Quincy]. Discusses [James] Grahame and [George] Bond, who both have died. Also mentions Harvard Observatory and American Civil War.
Tells several anecdotes about people William Herschel knew. Discusses William Herschel and his work.
Thanks JH for amusing letter. Discusses William Herschel, the great reflector from Slough, his family, and his health.
Thanks JH for copy of [John] Davy's letter. Is sorry to see Charles Babbage pursuing old disputes in his recent publication. Wife's health is failing.
Is trying to procure a church clock. Asks for advice from JH on choosing a clockmaker and a clock.
Asks for JH's opinion of the mathematical work of Professor [George] Boole, who recently died. Needs testimony to get pension for his widow and child.
Thanks JH for his opinion of [George] Boole. It may help his widow and children in their application to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple].
Asks whether Greenwich Board of Visitors should meet to answer communication from Admiralty or if a response could be circulated among Visitors and sent if it meets with approval.
Visitors Board will meet to discuss railway companies' proposal to remove Greenwich Observatory to another site. Includes copy of Warren de La Rue's letter to ES.