Miss Caroline Herschel has just been elected an honorary member of the Academy. How shall they forward the diploma?
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Miss Caroline Herschel has just been elected an honorary member of the Academy. How shall they forward the diploma?
Rev. Humphrey Lloyd's paper on conical refraction agreed with WH's conclusions.
Encouraged that a calculus can be constructed out of his exponential series findings.
Sorry to hear that JH was not elected President of the R.S.L. Sending a supplement to WH's 'Theory of Systems of Rays' essay. Recommends [Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin,] Lord Adare for consideration as a member of the R.A.S.
Developed a method that greatly simplifies Joseph Lagrange's integration of the 3n differential equations of motion of the second order by reducing all calculations to the application of 'one principal function.' Applies the method to planetary motion.
Congratulates JH on his successful Cape Town enterprise.
Pleased that the Royal Irish Academy awarded its Science Medal to James MacCullagh for his paper on the "Laws of Crystalline Reflexion and Refraction;" he deems MacCullagh's essay superior to WH's "On Algebra as the Science of Pure Time.","L
Asks JH to keep him updated on English research of the dynamics of light. Currently considering the 'propagation' of light waves, as distinguished from their mere 'preservation'; asks whether this is a new study.