Is not clear what the statement from Robert Peel means [see JH's 1845-9-29 or earlier].
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Is not clear what the statement from Robert Peel means [see JH's 1845-9-29 or earlier].
Explains how the money from the Admiralty came to be awarded as it was [see JH's 1848-9-24].
Seeks opinions on discontinuing use of 25-foot zenith tube and altering form of printed observations for transit instrument and mural circle.
Sends GA's correspondence on the subject of the Admiralty grant, with further explanatory comments [see JH's 1848-10-28].
A note to accompany further copies of correspondence to the Admiralty [see GA's 1848-10-30].
Expresses some concerns about GA's having indicated support for a particular candidate for the Board of Visitors. [Very faint.]
Asks JH for comments on GA's proposals for the Standards Commission [see JH's 1840-7-29]; GA comments on some time spent recently in Glasgow and surrounding regions.
Considers paper by [Baden] Powell to be worthless. Sent it to JH today care of Mrs. Stewart.
Asks JH's opinion about GA's plan not to print a separate volume of magnetic and meteorological observations for 1848.
Will reconsider the proposal about printing observations [see JH's 1849-3-29], and get back to JH.
Agenda items for next meeting of 'Committee for Superintending the Construction of Standards.' Compares English, French, Danish, and Prussian standards.
Outlines suggestions from [Drinkwater-]Bethune for improving 'Report of Standards.' Bethune distinguished Exchequer, Local, and Parliamentary (or National) standards, and preserved unit called 'land chain' equal to twenty yards.
Comments on JH's observing a 'falling star.'
Detailed response to JH's 1846-10-22 about the matter of temperature corrections for magnetic observations.
Suspects that the original complainant about temperature corrections [see JH's 1846-10-22] was in fact working with a faulty magnetometer.
Asks for JH's help in trying to determine the likely cost of making magnetic observations at Greenwich.
Thanks JH for his help [see JH's 1840-8-14], and tells JH about a visit to Greenwich by Charles Wheatstone.
Provides extensive comments, about GA's magnetic instruments and observations, in reply to Humphrey Lloyd's letter [see JH's 1842-1-17].
A notice of meeting of the Standards Commission.
A notice of meeting of the Standards Commission.