Acknowledges receipt of JH's 1850-5-28; GA will pass on the news to some others.
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Acknowledges receipt of JH's 1850-5-28; GA will pass on the news to some others.
Asks JH for comments on GA's proposals for the Standards Commission [see JH's 1840-7-29]; GA comments on some time spent recently in Glasgow and surrounding regions.
Considers paper by [Baden] Powell to be worthless. Sent it to JH today care of Mrs. Stewart.
Asks JH's opinion about GA's plan not to print a separate volume of magnetic and meteorological observations for 1848.
Will reconsider the proposal about printing observations [see JH's 1849-3-29], and get back to JH.
Is sending on G. G. Stokes instructions about polarization; several expeditions have left for more southerly locations to observe the upcoming solar eclipse.
Asks JH to compile list of questions to be sent to 'commercial bodies' regarding prospective changes in standards of weights and measures. To be presented at June 1838 meeting of Commission of Standards [see JH's 1838-5-24].
Announces 7 July meeting of Standard Commission at R.A.S. apartments.
[Form Letter] GA's address, as Astronomer Royal, to Board of Visitors. Progress report on F. G. W. Struve's proposal for joint French-English-Belgian triangulation survey.
Agenda items for 2 Mar. 1853 meeting of Commission for Restoration of Standards of Lengths and Weights.
Agenda items for next meeting of 'Committee for Superintending the Construction of Standards.' Compares English, French, Danish, and Prussian standards.
Outlines suggestions from [Drinkwater-]Bethune for improving 'Report of Standards.' Bethune distinguished Exchequer, Local, and Parliamentary (or National) standards, and preserved unit called 'land chain' equal to twenty yards.
Given the Treasury stance [see Richard Owen's 1858-12-18], GA sees little point in setting up one station [see JH's 1858-12-18].
Comments on JH's observing a 'falling star.'
Would support the application for a grant [see JH's 1870-5-12], but would like to see some changes in the way calculations are made.
About some major variations in terrestrial magnetism readings.
Response to a letter from JH to G. G. Stokes [1867-5-5] seen by GA, on the problem of the effect of the telescope on illumination from a light source, especially related to a solar eclipse.
Detailed response to JH's 1846-10-22 about the matter of temperature corrections for magnetic observations.
Suspects that the original complainant about temperature corrections [see JH's 1846-10-22] was in fact working with a faulty magnetometer.
Asks for JH's help in trying to determine the likely cost of making magnetic observations at Greenwich.