Asks TM to attend a meeting of the Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa.
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Asks TM to attend a meeting of the Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa.
Notes discrepancies between TM's and Thomas Brisbane's observations.
Exhausted from his meteorological observations, JH will not keep his appointment for tomorrow with TM.
Asks TM to return JH's book of star magnitudes.
Asks TM whether he plans to work today.
Wants to borrow TM's carpenter. Found a faint planetary nebula.
Agrees with George Airy that Mercury should be studied more closely. Discusses TM's researches of N. L. Lacaille's Northern Extremity.
Not surprised that the measuring rods broke; knew that they were top heavy. Discusses improvements. Very busy. A horse stepped on JH's foot, but no broken bones.
Sending the spherometer. Discusses stars and nebulae observed near the South Pole.
Reports that Dr. Andrew Smith received a grant of £1500 from the British government.