Thanks JH for reporting on C. P. Smyth's progress. Has read JH's translations of Schiller's The Walk. Sends copy of C. P. Smyth's work at Baseline Camp Zwartland on the remeasurement of N. L. Lacaille's meridian of arc.
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Thanks JH for reporting on C. P. Smyth's progress. Has read JH's translations of Schiller's The Walk. Sends copy of C. P. Smyth's work at Baseline Camp Zwartland on the remeasurement of N. L. Lacaille's meridian of arc.
History of husband's [W. H. Smyth] exchange of 1836 letters with T. R. Robinson regarding Gamma Virginis and JH's confirmation of W. H. Smyth's discovery. Sends copy of Augustus De Morgan's letter on renaming constellations.
Warington Smyth returns from mineral gathering expedition on the Continent for Cambridge and will present JH with a specimen of Herschelite. C. P. Smyth has sent sketches he made at the Cape.
Requests that JH write a recommendation for C. P. Smyth's nomination to the position of Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
Mentions how helpful JH's name would be on a memorial for C. P. Smyth. C. P. Smyth working on zodiacal light observations.