From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.175
Summary:
JH did not miss anything by being absent from the council meetings of the R.S.L. and R.A.S.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
JH did not miss anything by being absent from the council meetings of the R.S.L. and R.A.S.
Sends a copy of the report, which he has looked over with P. M. Roget. S. H. Christie seems averse to altering it. Thinks it important to make observations of the temperature with barometric readings in balloon ascents. Only readings by J. L. Gay-Lussac at present.
Sending copies of the reviews of his work, which has been attacked in some quarters. Would like JH's views on two of the chapters.