Is sorry to hear the distressing news. Offers suggestions to relieve Charles Babbage of his sorrows.
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Is sorry to hear the distressing news. Offers suggestions to relieve Charles Babbage of his sorrows.
News of his family. Joseph Clement's work on the machine and alterations proposed. Clement wants payment of £150. Recent happenings at the R.S.L.
Announcement of Baden Powell's election to the Savillian chair of Geometry.
Regarding various publications for distribution.
Asks DB to sign a certificate for the candidature of William Ritchie for admission to R.S.L.
Further reasons why he cannot accept the position of Professor at London University.
A letter accompanying several other letters that might be of interest to GA; encourages GA to act quickly if he means to try for 'the appointment.'
Has just had a letter from W. S. Stratford announcing his decision to resign from the secretaryship of the Astronomical Society. Comments on this. He himself is also thinking of resigning the Presidency at the Anniversary meeting. Regarding the microscopes.
Talks at length about the operation of the Board of Longitude and of procedures GA should know if he wishes to present proposals to the Board; JH seems to be trying to calm down GA.
Asks GA about the purpose of the request for the use of Christiaan Huygens's telescope in the possession of the R.S.L.; JH comments on the accuracy of James South's astronomical observations.
Offers information, and strategy, which GA may find useful if he is seriously considering a position at Dublin Observatory; much of the information JH provides comes from Francis Beaufort.
Comments on GA's response to an offer from Dublin [see JH's 1827-4-7]; also about the discussion in the Council of the R.S.L. of a report of experiments from William Whewell and GA; JH makes some disparaging remarks about the work of John Pond.
Explains to GA the disposition, by the Committee on Papers of the R.S.L., of GA's experimental results [see JH's 1827-5-3].
Comments on GA's work on the solar tables, GA's pending paper on eyepieces, and on the quality of observations made at Greenwich and Paris; GA is intending to repeat the experiment of swinging a pendulum in a mine, and JH believes the Board of Longitude can provide the equipment.
Has had a collection of Astronomical Observations from K. L. C. Rümker. Should these be printed and has Rümker the sanction of TB for this kind of observation from the Observatory?
Notified Georgiana Babbage that two or three electors for professorship at Oxford favor Charles Babbage. JH not free to name them. Death of father may alter Babbage's desire for position. Meanwhile Mrs. Babbage asks that we keep 'any one favourable to C. on neutral ground.'
Congratulates CM for completing Jean-Baptiste Delambre's Histoire de l'astronomie du XVIIIe siècle [1827]. Explains how to send copies for distribution to England.
George Airy has written JH to say that he does not at this time wish to go to Dublin to offer himself as a candidate for the Andrews Professorship at Trinity College, Dublin. Asks advice on aspects of Airy's candidacy.
Offers the correspondent's friend the information that JH has received a letter indicating that John Henslow is a formidable candidate for the professorship of botany.
Pleased that JE will continue the Berlin Ephemeris. Makes various recommendations regarding it. Hopes that someone will reduce Thomas Brisbane's observations of southern heavens.