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Is sending JH a paper on standardization of measurement, using decimalization but not the meter.
Returns CD’s £5 as the school subscription has failed.
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Thanks for his books. Encloses one of his own pamphlets on Atoms, which will show his personal view of mind versus matter. Comments on some of Haig's terminology.
Responds to objections published in the Times of 30 June to JH's 1864-6-18 letter to the Times regarding the introduction of the metric system in England; JH opposes this and goes on to explain the scientific basis of the British system.
Responds to WW's comments on JH's Iliad translation. Sending Book X.
Encloses list of CD’s publications.
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Studies sidereal chromatics. Asks if William Herschel recorded colors of Beta Cygni in a 1779 observation.
Appreciates the difference between Robert Hooke's and JH's suggestions for a helioscopic telescope. Comments on these suggestions. Has recently constructed a reflecting prism. Comments on this.
Thanks for his letter and amusing pamphlet on atoms. Comments on their use of certain terms. Does not think their views differ radically. Thinks heat is a form of movement.
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Corrects typographical errors in JH's recent letters [1864-6-18 & 1864-7-1] to the Times.
Sends WS William Herschel's chromatic observations of Beta Cygni. Completing 'Catalogue of Nebulae.' Works on translating Book IX of Iliad; fears he will not complete translation of Iliad.
JDH pursues the coffee plantation job for Scott.
Wrote 14 letters today. JDH’s work load.
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Questions dates in William Herschel's observations. Wishes JH luck on completing translation of Iliad.