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Will bring her manuscript [Mechanism of the Heavens]. Apologizes for holding it so long. Critiques various passages concerning permanent rotation and equations of stability. Sends condolences on Dr. Somerville's loss.
Received Thomas Young's portrait. Will send summary to Hudson Gurney soon. Suggests correction in proposed title.
F. G. W. Struve will arrive in July. Before HK and wife leave for Continent next week, please leave directions how Struve may obtain Struve's scale.
Submits JH's manuscript on Thomas Young's mathematical works for HG's biography of Young. Notes their excessive obscurity. Reasons for insisting that JH's name be added no longer exist. Asks HG's votes for two candidates for Athenaeum.
Provides HG [who was writing a biography of Thomas Young] with a detailed evaluation of Young's contributions to physical science, e.g., Young's development of the principle of interference in optics.
Is defending a change in notation for the angles of position system that JH introduced in a paper. [Postscript dated 1830-7-7 marked 'Private' and deals with business relating to the Athenaeum and a comment on Charles Babbage's book.]
Some comments about the [Vignette] together with its return.