Dr. [T. L.] Phipson has proposed a solution to a cipher JH published in Photographic News, but JH did not receive the issue in which it appeared. Please send that issue to JH.
Dr. [T. L.] Phipson has proposed a solution to a cipher JH published in Photographic News, but JH did not receive the issue in which it appeared. Please send that issue to JH.
Macmillan is publishing JH's Iliad translation. Wishes to dedicate it to WW. [Matthew] Arnold wrote an encouraging letter on the sample translation sent him. Daughter Isabella appreciates your hospitality.
Rome College honors JH as one of the most important figures in science. AS praises the contributions of the Herschel family to science. Will send observations of Rome Observatory for 1865.
JH's solution is perfectly satisfactory.
No summary available.
In despair: has lost his copy of Verlot’s memoir on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés (1866)]. Has JDH borrowed it?
Sends observations of circumpolar nebulae originally published in the Astronomische Nachrichten. Hopes calculating their motion will eventually be possible. Wants JH's opinion on GR's work.
Is in a mess with his correspondence and will get no assistance before 1 April.
Has agreed to give an address on the Darwinian theory at Nottingham [meeting of BAAS].
Further regarding his own theories on the surface of the moon as revealed by photography.
Reveals the solution to a cipher given in JH's 1865-12-28 letter to PN.
No summary available.
What progress has been made with pigeon drawings for Variation?
Can WBT persuade Mr Zurhorst to repeat a pigeon experiment?
No summary available.
Has seen JH's nephew and will be pleased to sign his certificate. His instinct and reason are against dating Stonehenge as post-Roman.
No summary available.
Asking JH to send a few encouraging lines to George Rümker, director of the Hamburg Observatory, on his memoir 'Circumpolar nebeln.'
CD is happy to sign photograph. He will only require one copy of the journal.
Describes the problem of 'probability of three points on a plane forming an acute triangle.' Notes Augustus De Morgan has the same solution to the problem.
No summary available.
Sends copies of photographs of himself. Asks for photographs of German naturalists.
Comments on EH’s account of Protogenes primordialis.