Postscript: returns on investments.
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Postscript: returns on investments.
Will not comment on 'Extracts of paper &c;' [?]'s 'Suggestions' to [Standards] Committee are thorough and sufficient. Reluctant to introduce changes in units of measurement. Suggestions for security of new standards.
Send books for JH to Patrick Stewart at 65 Cornhill. Will return 'Balloon papers' of J. W. Lubbock soon. Grateful for [?]'s efforts in Macedoine Melloni's cause.
Explains JH's reasons for compiling list of discrepancies between JH's and [?]'s catalogs of stars.
Finally acknowledges that public will not accept decimal currency. Agrees to suppress article 103 and corresponding table. Sorry to see [Indian] rupee sacrificed.
Instructions for positioning new lenses in telescope do not correspond to actual labels on lenses. Suspects lenses were switched after leaving William Simms's shop. Please advise.
Thanks for 'parcel D W & M' of 26 Apr. Notes regarding British weights and measures, relative to [?]'s plan to circulate petition.
Notes peculiar spectrum emitted from [?]'s 'ingenious lamp.' Compares spectra from incandescent lime and from hydrated salts of lime.
Proposes modification to telescope to accommodate spectroscope for study of sun. Will write to Astronomer Royal [G. B. Airy] about it.
Asks for clarification regarding legal units of measurement established by Act of 1824.
Asks for loan of H's largest 'coated Electrical fan' tomorrow.
Some papers to be presented at [B.A.A.S.] meeting do not fit subjects of established sections. Suggests possible arrangements. Returns Mr. Ellise's report; cannot condense it any further.
About the health of Richarda Airy, JH, and William Parsons [Earl of Rosse].
A note to accompany a Russian work on weights and measures.
Thanks HK for a chronometer, and sends some polishing papers.
Sends congratulations to some one who has received a Doctor of Medicine degree.
Doubts that there is any significant difference of density between the northern and southern hemisphere.
A note accompanying a key that may hopefully open a bookcase in a room in Harley St. [?].
Excuses himself from a social evening due to pressure of work [observing].
Accepts an invitation to tea.