Willing to chair B.A.A.S. meeting next year, provided no other duties are imposed on JH's time and that no one else desires that office.

Would like CL to use his influence to obtain a place in Christ's Hospital for one of Robert Hunt's sons.

Thanking him for his Uranography; comments on this.

Thanks JD for sending JD's Mémoires de chimie, which JH praises lavishly as a contribution to organic chemistry of 'great importance and originality.'

Is submitting a list of corrections for the astronomy section of the Cabinet Cyclopedia. Proposes a major new work on astronomy.

Thanks for all the help with the benefit society material.

A note of thanks upon receipt of the thirteenth volume of the observations of the Cambridge Observatory.

Appreciates foresight, but cannot commit to be president of B.A.A.S. meeting at Cambridge in summer of 1846. Date is too far away; personal and domestic commitments are pressing.

Can raise no objections to being president of the B.A.A.S. for 1845, but will be unable to be in York this year.

Thanks RH for the papers of researches on light just received.

Provides a list of some of the better works for RC's library in the fields of astronomy and natural philosophy. In a postscript JH refers briefly to a few of JH's own writings.

Delighted by Prince Albert's benefaction to [WB]. Curious results by [Robert Hunt] may lead to 'chemical discoveries of a new order.' Gratified by attention given JH's testimonial for Hunt.

The benefit society is launched and all is well.

Thanks MW for the beautiful picture created by her out of one of JH's sketches made on a journey to Europe. At MW's request, JH sends along some astronomical work in the handwriting of JH's father, William.

Skeptical of reports of seeing Jupiter's satellites with the naked eye.