[Form Letter] Government committee appointed to replace standards of length and measure destroyed in Parliament fire. List of questions seeking recipients' opinion on subject.
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[Form Letter] Government committee appointed to replace standards of length and measure destroyed in Parliament fire. List of questions seeking recipients' opinion on subject.
Has been asked to serve on a Standards Commission, to reestablish standards destroyed by the fire in the Houses of Parliament [1834]; is willing to serve.
A notice of meeting of the Standards Commission.
Asks JH to compile list of questions to be sent to 'commercial bodies' regarding prospective changes in standards of weights and measures. To be presented at June 1838 meeting of Commission of Standards [see JH's 1838-5-24].
Encloses official instructions to Thomas Maclear. Prices of telescopes. Remarks on caustics.
Announces 7 July meeting of Standard Commission at R.A.S. apartments.
About JH's visit to Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Gauss's well-devised magnetic measuring instruments.
Asks a number of questions about a projected South Polar magnetic expedition.
No one on committee has taken sufficient initiative to obtain funding for magnetic instruments. Hopes S. H. Christie and JH will act in this regard. Discusses doubts about South Polar magnetic expedition.
No summary available.
The Standards Commission will need to meet soon; JH is asked to indicate most convenient, and most inconvenient, days. [See GA's 1838-6-9].
Details about proposals for magnetic expeditions, as they are to be presented to British government [see GA's 1838-11-12]. Also included is a copy of the resolutions passed at a B.A.A.S. meeting on 25 Aug. 1828.
Comments on the work of the Standards Commission, hoping that it will move quickly to a conclusion [see GA's 1838-11-14].
Replies to GA's request for meeting dates [see GA's 1838-11-14], and suggests ways to shorten the work of the commission [see JH's 1838-11-16].
Trying to organize a meeting time for the Standards Commission that will suit everybody; GA wants to make very few changes in the standard relationships [see JH's 1838-11-18].
Agrees to GA's suggested dates [see GA's 1838-11-20]; comments on several approaches to defining a standard of weight.
A notice of meeting of the Standards Commission.