Humphrey Lloyd wants R.S.L. and B.A.A.S. committees on magnetism to meet together at B.A.A.S. meeting in Leeds. JH suggests inviting Edward Sabine.
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Humphrey Lloyd wants R.S.L. and B.A.A.S. committees on magnetism to meet together at B.A.A.S. meeting in Leeds. JH suggests inviting Edward Sabine.
Sends on announcement of 'new planet Parthenope' from Annibal de Gasparis at Naples.
Details of how coins are tested and stamped for weight. Procedures are not regulated, and variances are common. Encloses Mr. Miller's letter on decimal coinage. [JH annotation: 'Substance sent to Airy March 21 / 53 but altogether diff in form and wording.']
Thanks GA for a letter of introduction to friends in Rome [used by JH's daughter Margaret Louisa and her new husband, Reginald Dyke Marshall]; JH is willing to serve on a committee with GA and others if he does not have to go to London for meetings.
Suggests GA alter some phraseology and tone in his response [see GA's 1858-5-4] to Edward Sabine's report on magnetic observatories.
Intends to set up a meeting with appropriate members of the B.A.A.S., in order to prepare presentation about magnetic observatories for the B.A.A.S. meetings in Leeds.
Asks GA to help in determining cost of one observation station in Peking [see Richard Owen's 1858-12-18].
Expresses unease about P. S. Laplace's formulation of the barometric determination of height; in a postscript comments that Michael Faraday's lecture on conservation of force is a 'strange production.'
Has received the papers [see GA's 1851-10-7]; Sydney University seeks assistance in finding professors. What should the response be?
An invitation sent out by JH to invite all search committee members [Sydney Trust] to JH's house [see GA's 1851-10-16].
Note with copies of an advertising circular about the Sydney University professorships [see JH's 1851-10-16].
Information about some candidates for Sydney University professorships [see JH's 1851-10-29].
Partly identical to JH's 1851-11-16, but with different information about some candidates.
A note about the receipt of papers from Richard Sheepshanks.
Still arranging the next meeting of the Sydney Trust [see GA's 1851-12-4].
Still trying to arrange a meeting of the Sydney Trust [see JH's 1851-12-4].
Comments and further material on some candidates for the Sydney University professorships [see GA's 1851-12-21].
Differences of opinion about the best candidates for the Sydney University professorships [see GA's 1851-12-26].
About a procedure to make a final decision about two of the Sydney University professorships without having another meeting [see JH's 1851-12-27].
Encourages GA to write a letter in support of time off for John Hind.