Will send JP a map as requested. Asks for a ticket to one of JP’s lectures.
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Will send JP a map as requested. Asks for a ticket to one of JP’s lectures.
Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has again placed him on a committee to translate and publish foreign scientific memoirs.
Report to B.A.A.S. on progress and expenses in reduction of stars in N. L. Lacaille's Coelum australe stelliferum.
The report by G. B. Airy, Thomas Henderson, and JH on N. L. Lacaille's stars will be brought forth at the next meeting of the B.A.A.S. JP requests a copy in advance of the meeting.
A report by JH, George Peacock, William Whewell, and Humphrey Lloyd on magnetic observations will be read at the B.A.A.S. meeting in August.
JH appointed to committee with G. B. Airy and Thomas Henderson to study the reductions of the calculations on N. L. Lacaille's stars. They will be granted £189.
JH appointed to head a committee including George Peacock, Humphrey Lloyd, and Edward Sabine to study meteorological instruments. They will be granted £400. The grant will be presented in Glasgow next September.
Discusses need for barometric observations; asks if JH has plans to build a barometer.
Sends plans to construct barometer that he never built; invites JP to use the plans.
Reminder that JH must report on 'Reduction of Meteorological Observations' at next meeting.