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Has arranged for JH to receive a couple of plants of Fitzroya Patagonia. Hopes that the inclement weather has caused no distress.
Has received the R.A.S.M.N. containing the article on the movements of the asteroids. Has addressed a letter on the subject to the Moniteur universel and would be glad of JH's comments.
Comments on UL's paper on meteors. Outlines the nebular theory of the solar system.
Advice on choosing executors, drawing will, and disposing of MB's property. Sends semiannual dividend from Drummond's.
Avoid forcing metric system on India. Hopes Commission will adopt 'geometrical system of [A. T.] Kupffer and others. Winter weather. Family health and news. Alexander S. Herschel gave lecture at Leeds; reports many Japanese students at Glasgow. JH predicts that industrious Japanese may supplant Europe and America in next century. Details of JH's humorous plan for 'telegraphic personal transfer' [teleportation] to accelerate travel. Rash of bombings by mail in London. Attacks on police.
Acknowledges receipt of paper on nebulae.
On a correction to a report [JH's obituary on William Whewell].
About some flowers, including a new variety being advertised.
Sends copy of B.A.A.S. resolution regarding telescope in India. ES and R.S.L. colleagues agree to take no further steps in matter.
Has decided to accept papers treating of new researches. These will be inserted prominently in journal [Quarterly Journal of Science]. Would be happy to hear from JH.
Discusses displaying solar autographs to the best advantage. Invites JH's son Alexander to read his meteor paper at the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Discusses Aristotle's and Richard Whately's descriptions of the sensitivity of the eye's lateral areas. Asks JH to review cover sheet and opine whether the predictions described are miracles.
Thanks WS for describing Aristotle's and Richard Whately's observation of the great sensitivity of the eye's lateral portion. Congratulates WS on becoming Dean of Norwich. Draft discusses miracles and lists possible arguments against WS's idea that miracles are not a violation of nature
Dr. [Edward] Goulburn, not WS, is Dean of Norwich. Is trying to refute the position of David Hume that miracles are violations of nature.
Sends a correction for the ninth edition of JH's Outlines Astr.
Thanking him for lecture papers. Has sent his paper on partial differential equations.
Tells MH about the wedding plans of son John and Mary Power; comments on the health of daughter Constance, and sends a silly sketch by Emma Hardcastle. [Part of the letter is illegible.]
Sending the first volume of a new series on astronomy entitled Studies and Lectures.... Is continuing his work in the Times.