No such fast has been proclaimed. Sends two extracts from the Times.
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No such fast has been proclaimed. Sends two extracts from the Times.
Will learn with regret that Feldhausen has had to be sold because R. J. Jones, the owner, was in debt. Outlines the alterations to the house and to the neighborhood now that the railroad has appeared. Has a tribe of grandchildren now.
Is a collector of autographs and would be pleased to receive an example of JH's.
Is grateful for JH's reply. Wishes she had obtained the autographs of Sir William and Caroline Herschel.
Inquires about the mathematical nature of the chords of music, offering some ideas of his own.
Comments on the mathematical ratios in chords at some length, in answer to RP's 1869-11-18.
Proud of WJH for introducing improvements into Indian judiciary system. Sorry to hear that WJH may have to leave Dacca.
Questions about Indian civil law regarding Bengal promisory notes and duties on probate.
Pleased JH wants to defend [James] Grahame's work. Describes [Henry] Morton's work and sends additional publications. Intrigued by JH's prediction that a great discovery concerning the sun will be made soon.
Discusses discrepencies between his observations for September and WS's photograph. It seems the new spots result from Jupiter being in opposition.
Describes the similarities between JH's sketches and WS's photographs of sunspots. Has greater faith in own observations. Wishes WS would add Julian dates. Sends Professor [George?] Morton's photographs.
Is delighted with JH's exposition of colors of thin plates and of measurements of a wave of light in Familiar Lectures. Asks permission to quote from it.
Regrets that JH has not received annual volume of astronomical observations for 1865, sent months ago. Is sending another.
Is sending three Mexican Gulf shells, and a paper-weight made from a piece of the Wolf Rock off Penzance.
Kept indoors by the rain, so returns U. J. J. Leverrier with many thanks. Regarding Michel Chasles and the Pascal forgeries. Has lost his friend G. B. Libri. Had a visit from Robert Turner over the Pascal affair.
Asks JH's views on a system of constructing and annotating a set of celestial maps RP was preparing. Requests JH's public endorsement of those maps.
Thanks JH for suggestions concerning a star atlas RP was preparing. Informs JH of his progress in making that atlas.
Discusses his progress preparing star maps. Stresses that such maps can suggest theories of the arrangement of stars and nebulae. Mentions various papers and maps RP was then publishing
Proposes a method of diminishing the effect of a ship's rolling and pitching on a person on a cot or chair on the ship.
Is not prepared to come to any distinct conclusions about the effect of local attractions in geodetic surveying, but talks about the problem for the whole letter.