Regarding the storage of the Standard weights and measures.
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Regarding the storage of the Standard weights and measures.
Requires information on an actinometer.
Encloses copy of a paper for JH's comments. Regarding reviews of GA's paper on 'Tides.'
Regarding glass for the telescope for the Cape Town Observatory?
Regarding electrometers and their efficiency.
Further regarding glass for telescope. Postscript relating experiments with electricity.
Has JH received Thomas Maclear's observations on Encke's comet?
Regarding Cape Town telescopes. Has written to Thomas Maclear for observations on Encke's comet.
Regarding JH's forthcoming visit to the Greenwich Observatory.
Further observations on object glasses.
Informing JH that he certainly wrote to him from Limerick.
Regarding F. W. Bessel's letter on the irregularity of proper motion in stars. Is it worth printing Nevil Maskelyne's observations on star places?
Hopes JH will write a memoir of Francis Baily.
Regarding object planes for the telescope.
Giving abridged history of the establishment of the new Board of Visitors to the Royal Observatory. Details concerning the Nautical Almanac. Standards commission.
Regrets his delay in not returning F. W. Bessel's letter. Observations arising from this letter.
Regarding magnetic establishments and observations.
Wants information on dispersion/separation of light in plate or crown glass.
Asking him to read GA's medal-speech.
Is enclosing two transcripts of letters from William Simms relating to the object-glass. a. Hopes to give account next week. b. One glass good, other has failed.