From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.193bis
Summary:
Further explanation of a matter in gunnery. Can send further sketches if he is still interested.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Further explanation of a matter in gunnery. Can send further sketches if he is still interested.
Has accepted an invitation to visit the Victory and hopes to meet the JH's at the same party. Is off to the dockyard to see about an anchor.
Has been staying at Rome, where the climate did not suit him, but is now on a small ship touring the Mediterranean. Sends a letter of Feliciano Scarpelini, who has a man working a specula made of marble. Palermo Observatory is being put on a secure footing.
Further about the experiments of T. T. Grant. Man presented him with a sealed packet on the subject of the precession of the equinoxes by means of the libration of the moon.