Is about to leave for England with Alphonse de Candolle. Gives news of his latest astronomical observations. Lists people he has met or hopes to meet.
Is about to leave for England with Alphonse de Candolle. Gives news of his latest astronomical observations. Lists people he has met or hopes to meet.
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Board of Longitude would approve providing Lieutenant Forbes with apparatus JH suggested. Inappropriate for any member to address Admiralty separately. Payment of expenses to committee members.
Is sending copies of a memoir on the triangulation of Savoy, prepared by GP and [Mr. ?] Carlini. Is including copies for other scientists and organizations.
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Has not heard from [University of Virginia]. Position of lecturer in mathematics and natural philosophy has opened at Dollar Institution in Edinburgh. WR asks for recommendation for the position from JH.
Abandons TY's argument on Mr. Roberts's object glass. Asks JH's help in understanding A. J. Fresnel's calculations of diffraction and Josef Fraunhofer's discontinuous functions.
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Sending the Gold Medal awarded to CH by the Astronomical Society and also a pair of bracelets from his mother; will send the indexes later. Just erected James South's large equatorial.
Accepts JH's extension of Class I double stars. Comments on comparison of these and suggests comparison of respective scales might be mutually useful. Includes continuation of work on micrometer measurements of Saturn. Notices strange eccentricity of Saturn's rings. Is considering comparing his degree-measurements with Finland and Lapland.
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Regarding Joseph Clement and the work on his machine. Account of his recent excursions.
Believes it was not our Captain Foster to whom the advertisement alluded. Singular way in which Mr. Barrowcliff discharges his trust.
Regarding the meeting, and the papers read last Friday. Invitation to dine with him and Sir Thomas Brisbane. Regarding Brisbane's observations. Various Astronomical Society affairs.
Has not heard from America. Discusses paper on electric conduction. Wishes to move further south. Thanks JH for securing WR's election to R.S.L.
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Is glad Thomas Brisbane was in the chair at the meeting. Will be pleased to join the party on Friday. The Parramatta observations. Someone to supervise their publication. His own recent observations.