Comments on a paper recently submitted to him by BB on chemical notation.
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Comments on a paper recently submitted to him by BB on chemical notation.
Not willing to be involved in translation of French work on astronomy [see JB's 1867-2].
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.
Thanks EC for her sonnet; talks about solar photography.
Comments on reports of meteor sightings from the United States and Italy; explains why one may see a satellite of Jupiter where there is none.
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.
Comments on mathematical comments AD has sent JH; JH is sorry to see AD has retired from his professorship; comments on the hard winter.
Comments on AD's theorem [see AD's 1867-4-20].
Requests AD send JH an astronomical drinking song.
No mention of Emmanuel Liais's L'espace céleste in English journals. Contact London publishers to find translator for it. Alexander Herschel is now professor of natural philosophy at Andersonian Institution in Glasgow. Hopes JB's elegant method of measuring gravity by torsion will not die before being put into practice.
JH is 'shaky & feeble.' Pleased with biography of ED's brother Thomas. JH's son John and bride departed today for India. Deaths of JH's contemporaries. Describes Constance Herschel's whooping cough.
Thanks RW for sending RW's Mittheilungen and RW's Neue Untersuchungen. Replies to RW's queries about JH's ancestry and about the current state of JH's father's largest reflecting telescope.
Thanks RW for sending him a photograph of RW; sends photograph of JH in return.
Thanks RW for sending copies of RW's memoir on JH's father. States that JH has now revised a catalogue of all JH's father's double stars.
Family news; JH is very proud of the accomplishments of young daughter Constance Anne.
News of many of the children, as well as news from London.
About traveling to Halton; JH is finding working on his double star catalogue fairly severe drudgery.
Delighted to receive Memoir of Maria Edgeworth [ed. by F. A. Edgeworth, 1867]. Praises Edgeworth. Whom should JH thank for this gift?