Thanks him for cirripede specimens. Discusses RF’s collection.
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Thanks him for cirripede specimens. Discusses RF’s collection.
Thanks for citing (18 months ago) John Brinkley's paper on 'General Term.' Heard that Augustus De Morgan notified JH of deductions HW drew from Brinkley's theorems, extending them into permutations and combinations. Re-read JH's ['On the Development of Exponential Functions' (1816)]. Asks where to buy JH's Examples in Finite Differences [1820] for HW's great-nephew [Howard Elphinstone].
Reports death of Francis Jeffrey. JH's letter to Jeffrey arrived too late. Mrs. Jeffrey will return to [Haileybury?] with WE.
Asks questions relevant to a series of books presenting science for juveniles.
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Thanks for sending Examples in Finite Differences [1820] to WH's great-nephew Howard Elphinstone. John Brinkley's paper opened up new possibilities for permutations and combinations.
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Mentions illness.
Describes work on fossil cirripedes. Asks to keep specimens somewhat longer.
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Hooker’s imprisonment.
Birth of Leonard Darwin.
Barnacles will never end; on to fossils.
Would he drop him a few lines on the orbit of the meteor for the R.A.S. Robert Potts of Trinity is to publish by subscription a translation of Robert Simson's Porisms.
In looking through Lamont 1845-6 he found two observations of Neptune not previously recognized. Thanks for his memoir on the orbits of double stars.
Returning with gratitude HT's Statesman, which stimulated much political and social reflection in JH.
Family and political news.
Asks permission to clean specimen. Describes research on cirripedes.
A. G. Melville will start Meteorological Observatory at Queen's College, Galway. CPS discusses JH article on plans for building an ice-making machine.
RF’s specimens have arrived.
Discusses points of lunar and solar eclipse observations.
Marriage of HH's eldest daughter. Thanks for JH's letter of introduction to George Bishop and J. R. Hind.
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