Must decline invitation to dinner due to poor health.
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Must decline invitation to dinner due to poor health.
Aware that letter of 3 April did not reach the Herschels' home until after the engagement. Wishes to explain the apparent neglect.
Asks WS to forward enclosed note to Professor Schlegel. Disappointed that his celestial mechanics lecture [review] did not appear in last issue of the Quarterly Review.
Sends news of a cholera epidemic to help JH make his summer plans. Mentions a number of new cases from Altona, Hamburg, and Berlin. Asks JH not to spread information.
Sends two bottles of Claret and a box to be forwarded for [Francis] Baily.
Requests that AQ forward letter to London explaining JH's delay in returning home. Promises to send latest paper on orbits of double stars. Mentions [Wilhelm] Struve's confirmation of data. States that [Wilhelm] Olbers is dying. [H. C.] Schumacher is recovering.
Is grateful for JH's letter and offer of assistance. Will come to London earlier than expected so that he can call on him and discuss his problems before foreign travel. Would be glad of an introduction to Mario Gemmellaro and other scientists JH thinks would help him in his studies.
Asks JH to thank Henry Kater for his comparison of WS's scale to that of the standard-yard. Mentions breakout of cholera as reason for delay in responding. Includes many measurements of year's work.
Accepts position on Council of B.A.A.S. Approves of next meeting's being held at Cambridge.
Is drawing up a new actinometer and comments on JF's ideas about it. Encloses a letter to JF's brother.
Will leave Slough, if necessary, to vote in Parliamentary election for JL as representative for Cambridge.
Gives permission to do anything with JH's letter; asks to be excused to J. W. Lubbock for not having written back.
Gives JF permission to use JH's letter to JF's brother in any way JF sees fit to obtain the Chair of Natural Philosophy (at Edinburgh), but still does not wish directly to promote JF's selection. Briefly discusses results of JF's experiments with the actinometer.
Declines invitation to serve on next R.S.L. Council, being busy with preparations for Cape trip.
Recalls with delight experiments in solar radiation at MG home and puts MG in communication with James Forbes of Edinburgh.
In preparation for foreign travel, asks JH about instruments and method for measuring radiation.
Sends thanks and congratulations for paper verifying electric origins of all magnetism. Will give JF an actinometer with complete instructions. Includes some instructions for obtaining and using it. Sends regards to Mario Gemellaro, should JF go to Catania.
Suggests that JF use his instruments to compare the force of solar radiation at high and low elevations. Delineates possible methods for this experimentation, and lists results of similar experiments. Includes further information on the actinometer.
Will not publicly recommend JSF's brother, James Forbes, for Chair of Natural Philosophy (at Edinburgh), but praises him, his enthusiasm, and his brother's determination that he obtain the position.
Hopes for conveyance to Cambridge in covered vehicle for meeting of J. W. Lubbock's committee.