Apologizes for having been too busy to sit for a portrait as proposed, thanks HO for his poems, and describes JH's current experiments related to photography.
Apologizes for having been too busy to sit for a portrait as proposed, thanks HO for his poems, and describes JH's current experiments related to photography.
[Two copies of] Printed letter from R.S.L. announcing proposed system for global magnetic observations. [One copy edited by JH for submission to "Your Highness" with] Request for assistance in adding magnetical observatory to John Caldecott's astronomical observatory in Travancore [India].
Is willing to be a witness to some battery experiments by J. P. Gassiot, but JH is busy, mostly with house hunting, and so may not be available.
Is sending FA information about magnetic proceedings.
Describes method of suspending furniture in a ship such that the furniture is less influenced by the ship's motion.
Because of R.S.L. council meeting on Thursday, suggests Friday meeting with JL and several others.
Sends plans for and detailed explanation of device to suspend cot or couch in ship so as to 'destroy' ship's motion and alleviate seasickness.
On the difficulties of writing his book [Cape Results]. Feels he has been at everyone's disposal but his own and is finding notes made at the Cape difficult to decipher. Asks RS to report to him from Germany on the state of telescope manufacturing there and on the progress of F. G. W. Struve's great refractor.
About JH's travels and viewing of prospective homes to which to move; saw Collingwood.
Suggests arrangements for submission of papers, reports, models, etc., to the B.A.A.S. meeting.
Recounts experiments with chemicals, spectra, and photographic paper.