Alterations to MB's will. Objects to MB's plan to return to live in Mr. Binsted's house at Anstey.
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Alterations to MB's will. Objects to MB's plan to return to live in Mr. Binsted's house at Anstey.
Anecdote about William Whewell. Religious beliefs in England. Foolish opinion about moon expressed in the Times.
Regarding gales of wind and their relation to violent changes in barometric pressure.
Is in poor health; laments poor reception of his translation of the Iliad.
Is he acquainted with his ordinary reading glass? Gives details. Always carries a small one around with him for reading small print; thinks there would be a good market for them.
Outlining suitability of various types of glass for optical work. Gives details of theories of his reading lenses and calls attention to one of his own papers in the R.S.P.T. for 1821.
Notes that JH had pointed out the perpendicularity of the direction of wind to the direction of a wavefront's advance. Encourages research on the causes of such meteorological phenomena.