News of the forthcoming marriage of his daughter. Everyone seems to be mad on making ice.
News of the forthcoming marriage of his daughter. Everyone seems to be mad on making ice.
Writes to inquire as to the exact definition of the gallon and the pound, and the circumstances under which the appropriate measures would be made.
[Form letter] Schedule of meetings for Institution of Civil Engineers. As honorary member, JH is invited to attend.
Plans for refracting telescope TW is constructing. Diagrams and questions about lens construction.
JH is 'shaky & feeble.' Pleased with biography of ED's brother Thomas. JH's son John and bride departed today for India. Deaths of JH's contemporaries. Describes Constance Herschel's whooping cough.
Reports his opposition, shared by JH, to Britain and India adopting the metric system. Discusses WH's wife, Emma, WH's brother John, a coming solar eclipse, and a theory of gravity.
Describes a method JH devised of producing 'autographic representations of fungi on glass.'
Sending details of his theory on meteorology and cometography and inviting JH's comments.
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