Asks CD to sign some "Sunday tickets" [for the Zoological Garden?].
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Asks CD to sign some "Sunday tickets" [for the Zoological Garden?].
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JL’s review of Huxley ["Lectures to working men", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864)].
If enclosed item is accepted for publication in Photographic News, JH wants to inspect its press, especially 'as respects the Cipher,' and to receive 25 copies.
Reports on G. B. Airy's analysis [R.S.P.T., 153,. 617-] of 177 magnetic storms.
Asks that consideration be given to 'wishes of the Cadet' in selecting a regiment for him.
About geodesic books and JH's encouragement to John to keep asking questions; indeed JH is almost insistent on son John's writing to JH with questions, book needs, and confidences. JH also talks about finding the arithmetical mean of a number of observations. [Also included is the 1st page of a letter to John from one of his sisters.]
Encloses copy of JH's essay entitled The Yard, the Pendulum, & the Metre... (1863). Speculates on causes for deviation in pendulum measurements. Recommends using torsion gravimeters in 'proposed operation.'
In response to the gift of a book, JH comments on the philosophy of knowledge, and goes on to say that JH agrees with [John Stuart ?] Mill's rejection of the syllogism as a means of argument. In the postscript, JH comments on the nature of heat.
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A letter to Miels Berkeley from Joseph Hooker thanking him for information about G. Baker and mentioning that they had recently been to see Dr John Paget for a diagnosis.
Asa Gray’s high opinion of ARW as a reviewer [reference to S. Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 11 (1863): 415–29, reviewed by ARW in "Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton’s paper", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 303–9].
Returns letter mailed by mistake [see 4361].
Hopes CD will accept gift of his Radiolarien [Die Radiolarien, 2 vols. (1862)].
Received JH's two letters acknowledging receipt of 'Volume of Tables of Heights' of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Hopes to visit JH and discuss phenomenon of terrestrial refraction. Received valuable assistance on tables from JH's son John.
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Remarks on ARW’s review of Samuel Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells
and Origin.
Agassiz’s strength as geologist and weakness in natural history theory.
Work problems.
His butterfly collection.
Problems with book on Malay journey.
Recommends Herbert Spencer and his Social statics.
Spencer’s "masterly" nebular hypothesis.
Correspondence relating to the fall of a meteorite in South Africa on 13 Oct. 1838, and the provision of samples from Thomas Maclear by way of JH. [Letter illegible in parts.]
Discusses aspects of JT's new book [The Great Pyramid], especially its front matter.
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