Urges TM to observe Comet Encke. Anxious about Cape Results completion. Announces move to Collingwood. Requests another meteorite sample. Five schoolmasters to be sent to South Africa. Unable to send refractor.
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Urges TM to observe Comet Encke. Anxious about Cape Results completion. Announces move to Collingwood. Requests another meteorite sample. Five schoolmasters to be sent to South Africa. Unable to send refractor.
Has sent to JH papers relating to London University. Hopes JH will accept a senatorship.
Regarding L. J. M. Daguerre's photographic experiments.
Sending JH some writings on geodesic measurements; reports the second measurement of annual parallax of 61 Cygni; comments on some other observations.
Have obtained an act of incorporation for their library. Their father did not finish his translation of the fifth volume of the Mécanique céleste.
Requests FA's assistance in efforts toward establishing magnetic observatories. Especially recommends an observatory at Algiers. Communication from the R.S.L. will arrive shortly. Comments on biography of William Herschel written by J. B. J. Fourier.
Invites WB to participate in making magnetic observations. Is sending relevant materials to WB.
Asks if JE or the Academy of Sciences wish to participate in the British plan to make worldwide magnetic observations.
Thanks for gifts sent to JH's children. Gives information on various persons including John Wrottesley and Sir Edward Ryan.
Comments on CG's paper on the south magnetic pole, and on British efforts now underway to make magnetic observations.
Admires L. J. M. Daguerre's process, but hopes to see paper become dominant medium for photographs. Describes new paper JH developed. [Letter continues 6 July.] Experiment with fixed lines in chemical spectra; shows sensitivity of ultraviolet light.
Sending William Simm's paper, which was read at the last meeting. Would be glad of JH's views on whether it should be printed in the R.A.S. Memoirs.