Whewell and RJ plan to visit South Wales and would like to stop at Slough en route.
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Whewell and RJ plan to visit South Wales and would like to stop at Slough en route.
The Times has published an attack on the B.A.A.S. and stated that JH has left the B.A.A.S. Would JH write to the Times to contradict this statement. RM is to continue as General Secretary for a further year. [Note from Herschel to see Times of yesterday (3-3-39).]
Would JH communicate with C. H. Phipps (1st Marquis of Normanby) to speed up the dispatch of the four teachers selected for the Cape educational system. Frontier is quiet except for some cattle stealing. Safe arrival of GN's daughter in England.
Sends a pamphlet containing an account of AO's anemometer, also an account of the great storm of January last. Comments on his own and William Reid's theories of storms.
Is delighted with the photogenic apparatus JH has sent; it will afford him great amusement. Anxiously awaits some sunshine.
Advises JH not to publish any new processes in photography as there are patent problems. Comments on the Daguerreotype, and on the difficulty of preserving images in some circumstances.
Sends some samples of photography made with a solar microscope, and comments briefly on the Daguerreotype.
Cannot accept JH's invitation to dinner. HL and Edward Sabine depart tomorrow for [Batind?].
Attended [French] Institute and heard D. F. J. Arago read account of L. J. M. Daguerre's process, which is very different from those of JH and W. H. F. Talbot. Has not yet visited Francesco Carlini to give him JH's letter. Introduces J. T. Boileau, who will participate in magnetic survey.
Sorry he did not see JH at B.A.A.S. meeting in Birmingham. Asks if he may call at Slough.
Announces Charles Riddell's departure for Canada and his own trip schedule in Germany. Has read JH's report. Informs JH that ES has been made a member of the Committee. Glad that [Vernon] Harcourt's speech covered magnetic observatories. Eager to promote the public image of the fixed observatories. The translation committee was reappointed and includes JH, but ES will spare JH any work.
Recommends that a fellow scientist be properly cited in the R.S.L. report for his method of measuring the depth of the ocean. Encloses observations.
Regrets missing JH's visit. Discusses Andries Stockenstrom.
Discusses the dismissal of Andries Stockenstrom from his post of Lieutenant Governor of South Africa; expresses worry about the future of the natives of the colony.
Makes micrometer observations for a star catalogue to be published in 1840 for the University of Padua. Padua Observatory offers meridian circle to Vienna Observatory. Searches for comets.
Colonial Secretary Lord Normanby dismissed AS Lieutenant Governor at the Cape, citing the feelings toward him in the colony. AS declares, 'I rejoice in having done with the Cape.' Declines an offer of a government position in the West Indies. Claims his future depends on how much he will be given as a pension.
Enclosing letters from Thomas Maclear so that he may see all he says about his meteorites. Will keep the meteorite until he tells him what to do with it.
Thomas Brisbane's application to the government for increase of power at the Parramatta Observatory. Can JH dine with him?
Would like JH to pay them a visit at Markree to see his 'circle' instrument erected. Hospitality will be rough owing to their lack of furniture. Hopes he is satisfied with his own photographic results.