Comments on a number of resolutions of the R.S.L., as always encouraging keeping government activity at a distance.
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Comments on a number of resolutions of the R.S.L., as always encouraging keeping government activity at a distance.
Would like to dedicate to JH a book on climatology that AM is preparing.
Expresses unease about P. S. Laplace's formulation of the barometric determination of height; in a postscript comments that Michael Faraday's lecture on conservation of force is a 'strange production.'
Writing article [for Encyclopaedia Britannica] on meteorology. Asks questions regarding work of [H. W.] Dove and [Thomas?] Taylor regarding cyclone and storm theory. Discusses barometric fluctuation.
Discusses [H. W.] Dove's works regarding rotating storms. New information from Russian observatories gives a more complete understanding of the phenomenon. Has not seen Keith Johnson's new edition of Physical Atlas.
Remarks on physical properties of ice and their bearing on glacial phenomena. Asks for help inventing term for idea of 'fracture and renewal' of glacial bendings.
Sends sketch of lecture on structure and motion of glaciers. Wants to conduct experiments on physical properties of ice, and applying polarized light. Beyond paper, is interested in cleavage of ice.
Thanks for lecture on glacier cleavage. Wonders how 'regelation' occurs when two masses of ice at 32° are placed in contact.
Informs JH that he wrote a book on Baconian philosophy inspired by JH's Prelim. Discourse.
JH's letter of recommendation for C. P. Smyth misdirected. Little time remains for nomination.
Sends atmospheric observations to JH before transmission to Admiralty.
Regarding P. S. Laplace's barometric measurements. Michael Faraday.
Sees by the announcement that he is to be out in April. Is there anything he can do in the way of proof reading? Is preparing answers to 65 queries of S. J. Loyd (1st Baron Overstone) on the decimal coinage.
JH's health is improving. Sends a portion of a letter from Thomas Maclear regarding Dr. [David] Livingstone's observations. Suggests the portion be read at the Geographical Society. Asks RM to invite Livingstone to visit JH.
Thanks for HB's Familiar Astronomy. Praises it as a good introduction to astronomy.
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