Regarding the Proceedings of the Southern Telescope Committee.
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Regarding the Proceedings of the Southern Telescope Committee.
Requesting JH to write to Thomas Maclear to get him to finish his work on the Trigonometrical Survey of the Cape.
Is returning correspondence on Southern Telescope Committee and the Melbourne telescope. Comments on the working of the scheme.
Regarding the work of Thomas Maclear.
Regarding JH's remarks about colored fringes in the clouds.
Thanking him for his statement about solar motion.
Regarding Thomas Spring-Rice (1st Baron Monteagle), the Treasury and the Commission on Weights and Measures.
Further regarding the forthcoming meeting of the Standards Commission. Regarding JH's 'Catalogue of Nebulae.'
Regarding JH's forthcoming visit. On the platinum in the pound weight becoming browned.
Expecting him soon. Experiments on the National pound.
Regarding the transit of Mercury. Error in calculating the pound weights.
Meeting of the Standards Commission on 16 March.
Meeting of the Standard Commission on 29 April.
Sending him the map of the world.
Sending him the draft of the Report of the Standards Committee for his signature.
Regarding the opposition to the proposed introduction of the French Metrical system.H
Daughter has returned from Switzerland.
Informing him that he has just heard of the death of Wilhelm Struve.
Is returning the Proceedings of the Manchester Society, and The Magnetical and Meteorological Observations for 1851-58. Regarding the registration of magnetical disturbances.
Concerning JH's memorial to W. R. Hamilton's daughter. Holiday in Keswick. Comments on JH's papers on optics and force.