From:
unknown
To:
JED Bethune
Date:
18 May 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/53, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
No summary available.
Sending an extract from one of his articles on the Theory of the Spinning Top. Relates this to the theory of Saturn's rings.
Suggests that JH print the portrait of JH with but not in JH's [Cape Results]. Has been working on Lt. Murphy's observations in Syria. Is pleased with M. J. Johnson's appointment to the Radcliffe Observatory. Asks JH for suggestions on projects for Johnson.