Given up idea of translating Dante; comments on meteor shower report; suggests EC write an ode on poverty.
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Given up idea of translating Dante; comments on meteor shower report; suggests EC write an ode on poverty.
Recalls CS's promotion to senior clerk in Mint office in May or June 1854, with full approval by W. H. Barton. Attests to CS's merits then, but advises CS to seek recommendation now from current master of Mint.
News of JH's son William and family, visiting England. JH and wife suffer from hot weather. JH's son John observed 'great eclipse.'
Is anxiously awaiting details of son John's observations of the solar eclipse in India; JH sends details of sunspots observed by JH on 18 Aug., and concludes with family news.
Thanks RM for the double star observations he has sent.
Describes the peculiar pairs of sunspots he has recently witnessed. Thinks the earth affected their appearance somehow. Is using the Julian calendar for dating observations.
Sends RM a copy of Angelo Secchi's double star observations pointing to a very large number of calculation errors.
Discusses Lord [Henry ] Brougham and his optical papers. Thanks ES for kind remarks regarding JH's son [John?]. Discusses polarization of corona.
Congratulations on success in observing solar spectrum and corona. JH's views on sun's corona [with diagram]. Agrees that communications in India are abominable.
Details about sunspot observations.
Discusses papers concerning light on [William] Sharpey's list. Discusses, very critically, Henry Brougham's optical researches.
Reviews additional work of H. P. Brougham [see JH's 1868-10-1] as has been requested in preparation for an eloge . JH is critical of poorly described and poorly understood work, unrelentingly tied to Isaac Newton's corpuscular ideas.
A note to accompany JH's biographical sketch of William Dawes.
Some photographs support the sudden disappearance of the spot on 17 Sept. Some photographs are misdated. The relation of Jupiter and sunspots suggests previously unknown interconnections in the solar system.
Answer has been delayed as SL's letter was directed to MacMillans. Can be no two opinions on the contribution to scientific knowledge of Sir John Lubbock. Has full confidence in his political opinions.
Thanks for verses on the transit of Mercury; comments on observation of an auroral arch and eclipse observations of the solar corona.
Solar spectrum observations of John Herschel (son of JH) may have produced detection of the photosphere and corona at a time other than a total solar eclipse.
Comments on JH's son's reports [see GS's 1868-11-6]; recalls idea of JH's father, William Herschel, about nature of solar light; transit of Mercury 'beautiful'.
Thanks for paper on physical constitution of sun and stars. Discusses possibility of vast atmosphere for sun.
Is obliged for GM's letter and for the trouble he has taken over JH's paper on musical scales. Object in writing this paper was to clear the ground as it were. Elucidates some of the points in his own paper and comments on parts of GM's paper.