Responds to report of the referee [on his paper "The formation of mould"]. Strikes out a paragraph and wants to add a note. Asks WL’s advice about a sentence.
Responds to report of the referee [on his paper "The formation of mould"]. Strikes out a paragraph and wants to add a note. Asks WL’s advice about a sentence.
Giving his reasons for not wanting to become a Baronet.
Thanking him for his offer of a baronetcy. Matters relating to this.
Thanks for loan of letters of Captain [Richard] Copeland.
No summary available.
Thursday will suit Charles Wood and FB is writing to G. B. Airy to meet JH in (FB's) room.
Welcomes JH back from Cape; includes results of FB's work on geodesical measurements in East Prussia.
Welcome home to the Herschels.
Informs HB that a cask of bulbs is waiting for him at the Customs House. From JH's experience of his own bulbs, urges HB to get them quickly as they will deteriorate rapidly.
No summary available.
A notice of meeting of the Standards Commission.
Asks JH for assistance in obtaining financial aid and new instruments from English government in support of meteorological observatory in British Guiana, where JL's son is stationed. Can JH suggest employment opportunities as astronomer in U.K. for JL's son?
Regarding tickets for Lady Herschel's gallery. There has been some fracas with Charles Babbage over the distribution of these tickets.
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].
Would have liked to have welcomed JH on his return from the Cape, but academic duties prevented it. Royal Irish Academy progresses under W. R. Hamilton's presidency. His late father established a magnetic observatory at Dublin and HL is in charge.
Lists 11 British cities with active Chambers of Commerce and two societies that might come 'within the Spirit of our resolution.' Will make further inquiries.
No summary available.
Some personal and some general astronomical news.
Thanks JB for letter to JH at the Cape. Requests JB to provide introductions for Mr. Stanford, who is making statistical inquiries in France.
About Cape bulbs and seeds, the new travel by railway from Slough to London, and concern about interest in animal magnetism.