Sends the remaining papers belonging to JH. Is grateful for his assistance.
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Sends the remaining papers belonging to JH. Is grateful for his assistance.
Thanks JH for response. Continues to criticize Francis Bacon. Quotes Scriptures: fallen nature accounts for human errors in observations. [Emphatic JH annotation: No answer.]
Laurence Parsons (Lord Oxmantown) has gone to Ireland to discharge his duties of High Sheriff. Sends finished proof of the engraving of Orion; comments on this. Has not worked on the nebula himself for many years. [J. K.?] Hunter was a good artist.
Expresses thanks for JH sending JH's translation of Homer's Iliad. Endorses JH's use of hexameter verse. Looks forward to reading it.
Engaged in bringing out a new edition of A. J. Fresnel's works and has some queries.
Thanking him for sending the translation of Friedrich Schiller [Schillers Spaziergang, Translated into Latin Verse, 1867].
Thanks JH for translation of [Friedrich] Schiller's 'The Walk.' Reform bill will again be before the House tomorrow. Denounces mischief of the Radicals.
Intends applying for the chair of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork and would be grateful for a testimonial from JH.
Many thanks for the Latin translation of Frederick Schiller's poem. Comments on various points of poetry. Further about the Pascal-Newton letters. Regarding William Pearson and the founding of the R.A.S.
In London for a short time. Wants to meet JH and will come to see him the following day.
Regarding earth currents and galvanic registers. Results of recent experiments on these.
Further concerning the Newton-Pascal letters. Comments on the various line endings for poetry. Why in Runic Almanacs the days of the week begin with Monday.
Is grateful for a copy of 'Spaziergang' in Latin verses. Envies JH's varied accomplishments. Fourth edition of his Siluria will be issued in October. Relates how James Croll was appointed a geological surveyor in Scotland.
Portrait of William Herschel will be returned after Second National Portrait Exhibition closes 31 Aug. Gratitude for JH's loan.
Thanks JH for a 'corrected edition of Deambulatz.' [?] Angelo Secchi has been at Cambridge. Is making composite photographs showing the activity of the sun and planets in the last year.
[Charles] Darwin and [William] Fairbairn have started a certificate describing JS's contributions to science. Asks whether JH would sign it.
Regarding David Brewster and the inaccuracies in his life of Isaac Newton.
Thanks for the gift of his poem; it has afforded him great pleasure. Is starting on a tour of South Wales and the West Country.
The Berlin Academy has decided to publish Charles Rümker's observations, thus removing the problem from the hands of the B.A.A.S. [see JH's 1866-7-13].
Asks JH to sign enclosed certificate over [Charles] Darwin's signature. JS will take it to B.A.A.S. meeting in Dundee next week.