Question regarding auroral streams. [Part of this letter is missing; digest was obtained by consulting JH's reply of 1870-11-3]
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Question regarding auroral streams. [Part of this letter is missing; digest was obtained by consulting JH's reply of 1870-11-3]
Agrees with GG and G. G. Stokes that the 'Magnetic Reduction Grant' should be approved. G. A. Erman also agrees.
Relationship of electricity to magnetism, and relevance to 'auroral streamers'.
Is looking for employment as a calculator and if JH has the superintendence of the reduction of C. F. Gauss's Constants he would like the position.
Thanks for the clippings about an aurora; thoughts on the relationship of poetry to music.
Returns, with thanks, a copy of JL's father's [John William Lubbock] work on lunar theory, and compliments JL on his own writings on prehistoric man.
Thanking him for his reply to his query of 1870-11-1.
[Responding to WJ's 1870-10-29], JH declines participating, suggesting that too many lobbying groups already exist and that such groups frequently end up agitating for ends others than those that led to their creation.
JH may recall meeting him at the Cape in March 1836. Now had a query regarding the size and limits of zodiacal light. Quotes case of errors in observations made by the Captain and Mate of a ship on which RN was returning from the Cape. Has now retired from the service.
Further comments on JH's paper on the musical scales.
Asks son John whom he would like to have sign the certificate for fellowship in the R.S.L. [see JH's 1870-9-7]; JH talks about ways of dealing with local irregularities in geodetic surveying [see JH's 1869-11-25]; is wishing Amelia and family were out of China and into India.
Acknowledges return of R.S.L. certificate signed by JH. Anticipating visit with JH's son John, whom AW appointed to Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.
What are JH's views on a suitable person to write a memoir of William Whewell.
Outlines the difficulty of selecting a person to write a memoir of William Whewell.
Acknowledging receipt of JH's Slough catalogues. Further news regarding the publication of Professor O. M. Mitchel[l]'s Observations.
Sending calculations on the relative proportions of land to sea on the surface of the globe. Would welcome any comments from JH.