[A. C.] Petersen [?] claims to have found a new comet near JH's nebula #379. Look for it, but do not announce this discovery.
[A. C.] Petersen [?] claims to have found a new comet near JH's nebula #379. Look for it, but do not announce this discovery.
Proposes priorities for allocating £1000 granted to R.S.L. by government. Disagrees with RM and Edward Sabine; R.S.L. should not assume responsibility for observatory or any other permanent institution.
Would JH agree that his review of L. A. J. Quetelet's book on probabilities be allowed to stand until the June number as there is a large paper on observations for the next number [of the Edinburgh Review]?
Notes discrepancy in date for discovery of planet Hygeia. Please furnish correct date and return to Spottiswoodes & Shaw, printers.
Read letter from CD offering a monograph of British fossil cirripedes.
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Regrets delay in sending pamphlets for JDD.
Thanks him for information concerning cirripedes.
Sends thanks to Charles Pickering for information about plant distribution.
Discusses boring species of cirripedes.
Believes Harry D. S. Goodsir mistaken about parasites on Balanus ["Observations on organs of generation in Crustacea", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 36 (1843–4): 183–6]. In fact parasites are the males of the species.
Admires chimes analogy in JH's 'On Circulating Functions' [1818]. Resumed interest in partitions of numbers in development of periodic functions. Finds JH's method superior. Encourages him to publish it. WH and Augustus De Morgan developed original method, which WH erred in attributing to Leonhard Euler. De Morgan's paper to Cambridge [Philosophical] Society demonstrates theorem leading to proof of Euler's theorem.
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Is sending JSB sponges.
He returns the Plumularia on which the beautiful Scalpellum ornatum was attached. [See 1229.]
Discusses shipping some of JH's books, with a shipment of other books for the Royal Society, to the R.S.L. in order to save shipping charges.
Explains HW's method for periodic functions.
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Pleased to receive JH's letter, which he hastens to answer to remove any misconceptions regarding the equatorial. Comments on some of his observations of stars. Received [T. R.] Robinson's proposal for a large reflector. William Mann has just finished 8 years of tide gauge measures. Grieves to hear of the illness of W. R. Dawes. [George] Smalley's financial affairs have come to a crisis. Convict question has been settled; they are to be sent to Van Diemen's Land.
'Private & Confidential.' Urges JH to accept University of London's senate invitation to join Board, which JH previously declined. Names others invited.
'Private & Confidential.' All seven invited to join [University of London's] senate have agreed. Urges JH to reconsider.
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Sends an interesting result of the comet computed by Mr. Barber of Etwell. W. R. Dawes's observations are about to be printed. Wilhelm Struve has some curious optical equations. Will be pleased to see Dr. [Henry?] Holland when he arrives.