Carefully describes how to pack actinometers being shipped to India.
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Carefully describes how to pack actinometers being shipped to India.
Agrees to allow Lord Oxmantown [Laurence Parsons] to add JH's remarks to Lord Oxmantown's paper.
Describes problem with spectral lines in telescope while trying to understand William Huggins's results.
Correction to be made in JH's biographical sketch of William Whewell.
Thanks for the palladium [see GS's 1861-3-22].
Asks R.S.L. Council to request Colonial Office to provide official recommendation to authorities in Malta for William Lassell, going there to observe.
JH regrets he will not have time to review paper on Indian meteorology.
Requests return of proofs, in triplicate, of JH's report on a paper on stopping cracks in cement.
Further to dealing with report on William Hopkins's paper [see GS's 1862-12-24].
Responds to GS's 1863-2-20, strongly recommending the support of the R.S.L. to defray part of the cost of publishing Richard Carrington's work.
Returns paper of G. B. Airy, Astronomer Royal, and submits report on it.
Comments on some communications with G. B. Airy, Astronomer Royal; complains he has received no formal acknowledgement of large number of manuscripts deposited with R.S.L.
Note accompanying report on paper by G. B. Airy.
Responds to GS's letters of 1864-2-4 about procedures for printing JH's 'Catalogue of Nebulae' and receipt of William Herschel's manuscripts .
Further about nebulae catalogue [see JH's 1864-2-5].
Agrees to review paper [see GS's 1864-5-12].
Comments on GS's 1865-6-1.
Returns a paper on Indian meteorology, as he cannot devote time to it.
A letter of introduction on behalf of the Prescott family.
Forwarding copy of paper by Ernst F. W. Klinkerfues; EK purports to show that movement of a star toward or away from an observer will affect its refraction in an achromatic prism.