Urges TM to observe Comet Encke. Anxious about Cape Results completion. Announces move to Collingwood. Requests another meteorite sample. Five schoolmasters to be sent to South Africa. Unable to send refractor.
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Urges TM to observe Comet Encke. Anxious about Cape Results completion. Announces move to Collingwood. Requests another meteorite sample. Five schoolmasters to be sent to South Africa. Unable to send refractor.
Received Hobhouse's letter of 27 May with reply from H.E.I.C. board of directors regarding establishment of magnetic observatories in India. D. F. J. Arago recommends additional station on Socotra Island [in Gulf of Aden].
Reticent to accept fellowship of London University if obligations of time and attention are too great. Requests more time to consider responsibilities of the post.
Writes 'in haste' to thank JF for a pair of papers. Comments on Louis Daguerre's pictures in Paris.
Departure of J. C. Ross for Antarctic expedition is approaching. Hopes that Admiralty will soon authorize R.S.L. to assist Ross in preparing instruments and coordinating global observations.
No summary available.
Thanks for gifts sent to JH's children. Gives information on various persons including John Wrottesley and Sir Edward Ryan.
LH's meteorological circular register was laid before the Meteorological Committee, which considers it worthy of notice. Comments on this, and would like to discuss the matter further.
Comments on CG's paper on the south magnetic pole, and on British efforts now underway to make magnetic observations.
Asks if JE or the Academy of Sciences wish to participate in the British plan to make worldwide magnetic observations.
Requests FA's assistance in efforts toward establishing magnetic observatories. Especially recommends an observatory at Algiers. Communication from the R.S.L. will arrive shortly. Comments on biography of William Herschel written by J. B. J. Fourier.
Invites WB to participate in making magnetic observations. Is sending relevant materials to WB.
J. C. Ross goes to Cape; will establish the proposed Magnetic Observatory for three years. TM should seek a site for the Magnetic Observatory.
Admires L. J. M. Daguerre's process, but hopes to see paper become dominant medium for photographs. Describes new paper JH developed. [Letter continues 6 July.] Experiment with fixed lines in chemical spectra; shows sensitivity of ultraviolet light.
Regarding L. J. M. Daguerre's photographic experiments.
Has enclosed with the letter 'a letter sketch of the 40 feet [telescope] (as it now stands) made without hands, by Photography.'
JH's brother-in-law John Stewart, who is delivering this letter, seeks admission to a printing establishment. Asks AQ to aid JS. Lists recently received letters. Glad that AQ has [C. F.] Gauss's apparatus. Discusses an experiment in photography.
Discusses the tensions between AS and Cape Governor George Napier.