JH has forgotten to name the day of his arrival. Can he let Elizabeth Baily know? Thinks he did the right thing in staying at Tavistock Place.
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JH has forgotten to name the day of his arrival. Can he let Elizabeth Baily know? Thinks he did the right thing in staying at Tavistock Place.
Is obliged for his list of James Dunlop. Has been reading JH's memoir of Francis Baily. Comments on this.
Sending the note for JH's son on how to decimalize fractions of a pound. JH's memoir has gone to press. Would like details of JH's work on the Southern stars for the Annual Report.
The memoirs are cut enough already. Hopes his health is better.
Elizabeth Baily would like him to write an inscription for her brother's memorial tablet. Francis Baily was buried in the land of his fathers at Thatcham.
Suggesting alterations in the wording for the memorial tablet to Francis Baily.
Encloses the corrections by his friend T. H. Key to the wording for the memorial to Francis Baily.
Further regarding the inscription for the memorial to Francis Baily. Has forwarded it to the executors and translated it for Elizabeth Baily. Wire pens satisfy him.
The epitaph has been sent to be drawn onto the stone. Comments on some of the wording. Sends some Alderton's blotting paper and the compliments of the season.
Regarding pens and suitable ink for various types. Further comments on the inscription for Francis Baily's memorial tablet.
W. H. Smyth, Thomas Galloway, and AD went down and visited the library of the Mathematical Society and found it in very good state.
Regarding the by-laws of the Society. Does not know anything about the Cambridge Transactions. Recommends various mathematical papers.
Hopes he has rested after his Cambridge labors. Comments on Thomas Wright of Durham and his book on the universe, 1750.
When JH comes to town he will send him the book. Comments on this book [probably one by Wright of Durham] and the works on 'Harmonics' by Robert Smith.
Has compared tables A and B and can find no identity between payments. Regarding the moon.
Has undertaken the Annual Report again. Has JH anything to report? Hopes he is recovering from his cold. Should read Richard Sheepshanks's pamphlet for a good laugh. Further regarding the insurance tables.
Should have returned the paper before, but has been very busy with the Annual Report and other matters. Paper seems worthy of publication.
By which of JH's photographic processes can drawings be made permanent? Hopes printing goes on well.
Has been planning the new duties for officers of the R.A.S. now that Francis Baily is dead. Hopes JH will consent to become president now, in order to give the prestige of the Society a boost.
Is beginning to work on the Annual Report. Has he any information about F. W. Bessel or J. J. L. Lalande's catalogue?