Has seen colored fringes on clouds described, and explained, in a journal. Does GA accept the explanation?
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Has seen colored fringes on clouds described, and explained, in a journal. Does GA accept the explanation?
Comments on some communications with G. B. Airy, Astronomer Royal; complains he has received no formal acknowledgement of large number of manuscripts deposited with R.S.L.
Thanks GA for the papers sent; asks GA to review enclosed note on solar motion [see JH's 1863-11-22].
Discusses JT's 'Battle of the Standards,' especially JH's letters against adoption of metric system and another lecture JH encloses. Comments on error in JT's frontispiece on the great pyramid.
Britain's change to the metric system displeases JH. Anxious for completion of TM's work, on arc of meridian measurements. Completes 'Catalogue of Nebulae.'
About a great meteor seen earlier in the year; JH is slowly translating Homer's Iliad.
Received tables of heights recorded in 'Sind, the Punjab, N.W. Provinces, and Central Asia.' Sees scientific interest in JW's described effect of refraction on levelling. Work is important to irrigation.
Presents eight-volume copy of William Herschel's 'Sweep,' transcribed by late Caroline Herschel. Reviews her career.