Has been observing Halley's Comet —'altogether the most beautiful thing I ever saw in a telescope.' Comet has tripled in diameter during the last week.
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Has been observing Halley's Comet —'altogether the most beautiful thing I ever saw in a telescope.' Comet has tripled in diameter during the last week.
Sending WT some seeds. Had hoped to send some bulbs.
Has received Francis Baily's Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed [1835]. Comments that its best part is Baily's restoration of the British Catalogue. JH now thinks less of Flamsteed.
Discusses the 'Moon Hoax' and JH's observations of Halley's Comet.
Reports in detail JH's observations of Halley's Comet as observed from the Cape of Good Hope.
Following up on an earlier communication, JH expresses to CG (Lord Glenelg) his views on a variety of areas, e.g., curriculum, discipline, administration, and methods of teaching for the Government Free Schools at the Cape of Good Hope.
Please convey thanks to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge for its star maps. Finds them preferable to [Johann] Bode's maps, 'which are full of egregious errors.'
Comments on the papers of evidence placed before the Aborigines Committee, and expresses himself vehemently about the sin of having penal colonies.
Feels unfitted for the appointment of Commissioner offered in JF's letter of 13 July.
Sends a copy of the printed paper by RF. Regarding chronometer measurements. Has just received a communication from Alexander von Humboldt in which he seems to have anticipated both JH's and RF's ideas. Comments on a new machine for sounding.