Would he trouble himself about the address only; all the rest will be arranged for him.
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Would he trouble himself about the address only; all the rest will be arranged for him.
Finds that some of the pages from the paper JH recently sent him are missing. Please send if he still has them. H. P. Brougham (Baron Brougham and Vaux) does not mean to attack the undulating theory. Regarding solar spots and the surface of the moon.
Regarding the early history of the calendar. Comments on the various versions.
Has received three packets, dated and initialed. Further comments regarding Julius Caesar and the calendar.
Many thanks for his astronomy [Outlines Astr.]. Will read it later when he has more time.
Sends extracts from book by Mr. Hopkins on the solar system. Has his own theories on the Augustan calendar proved to his own mind. No authority for giving the name Saras to the period of 223 lunations.
Regarding their various points of view on a certain question.
Arrangements about how the R.A.S. meeting will proceed.
Returns H. P. Brougham's (Baron Brougham and Vaux) paper. Does not recall any similar theories, but does not think his own theories are shaken by those of Brougham. Finds that AD has already done extensive work on the calendar.
On return of a paper, and approval of AD's method of resolving fractions.
Sends AD part of JH's paper on double stars; concerned about AD's dating it on arrival.
Another part of JH's double star paper; question of priority between JH and Yvon Villarceau.
Correction to JH's paper on double stars [see JH's 1849-3-26 & 1849-3-25].
Correction to paper on double stars following up JH's 1849-3-26; a terrible pun sent on by JH's wife, Margaret.
Needs to revise Outlines Astr., and will include Ernesto Capocchi's announcement of the discovery of another planet; some further corrections of JH's double star paper.
Seeking a tutor for his young nephews. Yvon Villarceau has sent printed copies of Villarceau's double star papers; JH has dealt with them.
Raises an objection to a method of calculating probabilities set out by AD in his Formal Logic [1847]. Otherwise, praises AD's discussion.
Thanks for present of Thomas Wright's books [An Original Theory of the Universe, 1750]. Finds it curious. Suggests that it is conceptually as distant from 1849 as the ancients were from it. Praises printing of its plates.