Conveys the best thanks from the directors of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana for the liberal settlement over his article 'Light.' He will receive a fine paper copy of the encyclopaedia in due course.
Conveys the best thanks from the directors of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana for the liberal settlement over his article 'Light.' He will receive a fine paper copy of the encyclopaedia in due course.
Regrets the error over the double stars. Is grateful to the Astronomical Society for the honor conferred on him. Regarding the observations of stars that he would like to deposit in a library.
Hopes JH will stay for Sunday dinner at TY's before JH visits Dr. Litten. If so, please invite T. M. Brisbane and Francis Baily to join them. Writes formula TY discovered for discontinuous spectra. TY can now communicate with H. W. M. Olbers and T. J. Seebeck via H. C. Schumacher.
Attended meeting of the Astronomical Society and made observations of Saturn. Invites JH to dinner party. Activities at the Board of Longitude. Contacts with French scientists.
Thanks for JH having been elected a Corresponding Associate of the Prussian Royal Academy of Sciences.
Encourages JH's efforts in writing a treatise on sound. Asks JH's advice on a system of mineralogical classification that WW, as Cambridge's new professor of mineralogy, had drawn up.
Is grateful for the gift of his essay on Light, though she cannot comprehend all of it. Regarding her brother Francis and his work at Cambridge. Would be pleased to see JH at Edgeworthstown.