Thursday will suit Charles Wood and FB is writing to G. B. Airy to meet JH in (FB's) room.
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Thursday will suit Charles Wood and FB is writing to G. B. Airy to meet JH in (FB's) room.
The Admiralty would like JH's opinion regarding the observatory at Mauritius and any suggestions for its improvement.
Many thanks for his report on the Cape Observatory, which he will lay before the Lords of the Admiralty. Also thanks for the promised opinion on the Mauritius Observatory.
Last year he sent the diploma of the Academy of Sciences of Stockholm of which JH had been elected a member. Introduces J. A. Wahlberg, who is coming to the Cape.
Sends calf eye as sample to demonstrate anatomy of eye. Disputes theories of Charles Bell and John Dalrymple.
WW sends JH some of the results of his magnetic observations. WW comments on the involvement of Carl F. Gauss in the work on terrestrial magnetism and urges JH, on his upcoming visit to Hanover, to make a point of seeing Gauss at Göttingen.