Confirms receipt of journals sent to JH by LQ. Calculations of probabilities for shots to hit targets.
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Confirms receipt of journals sent to JH by LQ. Calculations of probabilities for shots to hit targets.
Just read [?]'s article on [John?] Blackwood. JH's views on effectiveness of [Robert] Peel's act and on relative roles of government and Bank of England in nation's economy.
Responds to article by Mr. Yates in Daily News of the 18 May that misrepresented JH's views on standard units of measure.
Encloses published letter of 20 Dec. 1864 from JH to editors of Philosophical Magazine and Journal concerning Charles Babbage, who 'revived this miserable subject' of 1826 dispute between W. H. Wollaston and Humphry Davy regarding Babbage's candidacy for R.S.L. secretaryship.
Asks JH to support a petition to the government for a pension for the widow and children of George Boole.
Responds to a paper by Dr. Barnard, in which is propounded a view of dispersion of light being related to its intensity.
Comments on GS's 1865-6-1.
Found article with good description of Bank act. PR's ideas regarding issuance of currency notes.
Returns a paper on Indian meteorology, as he cannot devote time to it.
GS believes he erred in his 1865-6-1; now writes to correct it.
Asks JH to consider revising report on a paper.
A letter of introduction on behalf of the Prescott family.
Sends additional meteorological data for 10-12 Jan. 1865, showing effect of full moon on cloud cover.
Resolution reappointing JH and others to examine K. L. C. Rümker's astronomical observations in southern hemisphere and determine if these should be published.
Resolution reappointing JH and others to Lunar Committee to continue mapping surface of moon.
Resolution reappointing JH and others to Balloon Committee for further experiments.
Comments on the revolution of the apsides of the earth's orbit and its effect on glacier theory; further comments on the earth pyramids of Botzen [see CL's 1865-1-31], and associated phenomena.
In response to comments in a paper by JC, JH writes to establish his priority with respect to the significance of the revolution of the apsides of the earth's orbit and the eccentricity of the earth's orbit in affecting temperatures on the earth. JH had spelled this out in an 1830 paper for the Transactions of the Geological Society, and repeated it in his Outlines Astr.
Writes to CL about JH's response to James Croll's paper. Includes an extract from JH's letter to James Croll [see JH's 1865-2-6].
Does not gainsay the influence of distribution of land and sea on the climate. The change of eccentricity is also a powerful influence. Comments on this. Sees that CL's book is published. Is it too late to send his drawings of the earth pyramids?