Has written very strong notes to Lord Overstone and Sir J. W. Lubbock and hopes they will be of service to THH.
Acknowledges receipt of THH’s lecture [unidentified].
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Has written very strong notes to Lord Overstone and Sir J. W. Lubbock and hopes they will be of service to THH.
Acknowledges receipt of THH’s lecture [unidentified].
Thanks for answer to query. "I see … that there is no hope of comparing the same genus at two different periods, and seeing whether the tendency to vary is greater at one period in such genus than at another period."
Inclined to dispute SPW’s doctrine that islands are generally ancient. Doubts that they are remnants of continents.
Wants good rabbit specimens. Will be in London on 21 June and can pick up some pigeons.
Extensive notes on Madeiran birds: when and where seen on the island and under what conditions.
The Admiralty has given a grant for an astronomical expedition to the Peak of Teneriffe, and JH is now providing a list of details that should be observed in such an expedition.
Responds to Hubbard's inquiry about coinage.
JH's recommendations to Admiralty regarding experiments to be conducted by expedition to Teneriffe led by C. P. Smyth.
Where in JH's evidence to Parliamentary Decimal Commission did JH give number of coins that require recoinage?
Writes on behalf of the Lords of the Admiralty to thank JH for his suggestions relating to C. P. Smyth's trip to the peak of Teneriffe.
Relating his experiments with the zenith tube.
Formal note of thanks for TA's paper on ozone.
Thanks for JH's kind comments on TA's paper on ozone.
Was elected yesterday to the Registrarship of London University, and thanks JH for his support.
Has not heard from him for a long time. Thought that the Government was going to turn the R.A.S. out of Somerset House. There is someone to come to the rescue of Richard Sheepshanks. Has not seen Charles Babbage for many years. Their views are incompatible. C. P. Smyth is off to Teneriffe so now is the time for JH to make suggestions. Has set up a committee to make by-laws.
Comments on the state of JH's health, and on things astronomical and mathematical.
Is glad to hear his account of facts. Always thought he would recover his health. Gives one of his own mathematical formulae. Has no idea how the Decimal Coinage Commission is progressing.
[Form letter] Offers to send Commercium epistolicum J. Collins et aliorum... (1856), by J. B. Biot and Francisque Lefort, a critical edition of works by mathematician John Collins.
HW neglected to state principle from which he derived equation for eliminating differences. Expresses it in formula.
Glad that JH shows renewed interest in mathematics. Besides HW, JH, Augustus De Morgan, and Mr. Gerard, there appear to be no others interested in researching the differences of the powers of zero. Gave outline of HW's paper at Cambridge Philosophical Society. Plans to revise it according to suggestions from JH and De Morgan.
Quick way to determine coefficients in tables of differences of powers of zero.