Agrees with him about the impossibility of sending W. R. Hamilton's letters by post. Thinks the best plan would be to send them to his brother at the Athenaeum, who will bring them to Ireland.
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Agrees with him about the impossibility of sending W. R. Hamilton's letters by post. Thinks the best plan would be to send them to his brother at the Athenaeum, who will bring them to Ireland.
Comments on some incorrect attributions to JH.
Expresses thanks for receiving the 1868 volume of the Transactions of the Society of Engineers.
Comments on WJH's appointment as judge in India. Contrasts legal practices in England and India. Reviews calamities WJH witnessed in India. Alexander Herschel is lecturing about eclipse at Royal Institution and Leamington. Family news. P.S.: Please write to W. E. Hearn in Melbourne regarding Hearn's book Government of England.
Package of letters has arrived safely via the Globe Parcel Express Co., for which accept his best thanks. Would like a page or two of JH's recollections of W. R. Hamilton if possible. Has sent a pamphlet on William Wordsworth and the Lake Country.
Does JH have any letters from H. C. Oersted to lend to Oersted's daughter for publication?
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Sending some tables to show the relation between the mean distances of the primary and secondary planets.
Would be pleased if JH would come to the consecration of the new chapel in May.
Desires advice on construction of glass prisms for Newtonian reflecting telescopes. Also asks how to test the parabolic figure of a glass speculum before silvering.
Has discovered William Herschel's memoirs in R.A.S. library; arranged and read them. Asks JH whether any copies exist so the originals can be checked for completion before binding. Questions JH on William Herschel's opinion of the nature of nebulae and boundaries of the galaxy.
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Commentary on manuscript [Personal Recollections?] that [MS] sent to JH one month ago. Career of scientific learning and domestic happiness will inspire future generations. Suggests publishing it posthumously for greater impact. Corrects passages about Charles Babbage. Gives purpose, history, and membership of each of two Standards committees, one of 1819 and one of 1838. Suggests avoiding topic of bitter controversy over invention of electric telegraph.
The Meteorological Committee of the R.S.L. is about to commence publishing the summary of the observation collected from the seven observatories. Would like JH's advice on method of publishing the barometric observations.
Suggests remedy for bronchitis problem in JH family. Young John Herschel's work on nebulae pleases CP. Comments on William Huggins's work on solar spectra.
Agrees with BS's objection against performing daily analyses of individual barometric pressure records. Believes monthly analyses of importance for observing laws of annual pressure.
Is fully satisfied with the objections in WM's letter regarding the individual records of barometric pressure. Gives advice on how the records should be shown.
Notices in letter of last May JH's postscript about the rate of color blindness occurring to overworked or ill artists, and doubts it becomes di-chromic, but merely a 'weakness' of vision.
Thanks JH for the memoirs he sent to CP, who will reciprocate with some of his own.