No summary available.
No summary available.
Has not received Tables A and B of the endowment tables. Comments on the use of these tables and would welcome his views on a possible alteration in policy.
Congratulations on JS's new position at Bank. Received JS's account from Malta of comet. JH's son William is at Clapham grammar school under Charles Pritchard. Eneas Mackintosh promised to procure job as 'writer' in India for Willy. News from India and Europe. Teaching Latin to Alexander and three oldest daughters.
Newspaper accounts of JS's first success for 'the Bank' in India. Approves JS's plan to present personal report from JH on recent twin-tailed comet to Pasha of Egypt. Family news. Margaret Herschel's health. JH's son William is at Clapham grammar school under Charles Pritchard. Visit by John Stewart. Matilda Grahame's finances. Outbreak of class struggles in England.
Has not heard from Thomas Maclear [see GA's 1844-3-12]; has the Cape equatorial object glass been dealt with?
Sending papers on actinochemistry (photography). Discusses [James] Forbes's viscosity theory, nebulae of Southern Hemisphere, great refractor at Collegio Romano, and Lord Rosse's telescopes.
Comments on the large number of stars identified in one square degree of sky.
Details of printing the policy for the benefit society.
More details of the benefit society.
More details of the benefit society.
More details of the benefit society.
Discussion of actuarial tables for the benefit society.
Under pressure of time, JH is anxious to resolve the question of appropriate actuarial tables.
Corrections to the actuarial tables.
Further emendations regarding printing the policy of the benefit society.
Is spending time in court, and all the rooms are filled with tobacco smoke, which bothers JH.
Reacts strongly to substantial errors in unauthorized biography of JH. Suggests it be burned. [JH annotation: 'Not sent. Answered none of their letters and refused to take in 2 or 3. A regular piece of French insolence.']