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Recommends awarding Royal Medal to [William Parsons] Lord Oxmantown for paper on large reflecting telescopes.
Recommends that William Parsons be awarded Royal Medal for 'Account of Experiments on the Reflecting Telescope.'
The reductions for JH's Cape Results are progressing. JH's mapping work has been 'carried over the whole surface of the heavens' this year.
Summarizes James Clark Ross's expedition to reach the Southern Magnetic Pole; JH reports that Ross has discovered that the pole lies several degrees more south than Carl Gauss had calculated.
Please send on the picture. Hopes he had a good time in Italy.
Has no hesitation in adopting North Polar distances for his stars. Has two queries regarding the R.A.S.'s catalogue of stars. Weather has upset his own observations. Regarding a volume of T. G. Taylor's Madras Observations.
Congratulates WW on moving into Master's Lodge at Trinity College. Asks WW to look after a new Trinity student, the son of JH's friend Mr. Hartnell. Is making progress in reducing his Cape observations and is teaching his sons Latin and Greek. Adds some comments on happiness.