Has received a letter from the Misses Gretton and in consequence has opened an account on their behalf.
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Has received a letter from the Misses Gretton and in consequence has opened an account on their behalf.
Send quickly JH's manuscript of 'Catalogue of Nebulae.' It will provide work for computer whom GA was about to lay off. Prefers reducing JH's data to 1860's. GA's improvement on F. W. Bessel's reduction formula.
Comments on JH's work on nebulae and offers some of his own nebula observations. HA would be greatly honored if JH would include HA's observations in the catalog JH is preparing.
Will present to R.S.L. Council JH's application for money for reducing JH's catalogue of nebulae.
R.S.L. Council voted £20 for cost of reducing JH's catalogue of nebulae.
Does JH want £20 sent directly or deposited in JH's account?
Recalls JH having written that an 'annulus of stars might be in equilibrium.' Asks where this claim appears in JH's writings.
Responds to some erroneous claims made at the Society regarding JH's views in meteorology, e.g., JH asserts his support for the Hadleian theory of winds.
Sending two very singular empirical laws relating to the solar system and inviting JH's comments on them.
A theory of the construction of the solar system [see also HF's other letter of 1862-3-11].