Sends JH copy of his address to Royal Geographical Society. Inquires about a means to make astronomical instruments steadier with poles devised by JH.
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Sends JH copy of his address to Royal Geographical Society. Inquires about a means to make astronomical instruments steadier with poles devised by JH.
Compliments WS on a written address. Describes how to set up a telescope to avoid unnecessary vibration; includes diagram.
Excellent weather for observations of variable colors [in stars].
Discusses the naming of a Plateau of Brussels. Discusses names to go on list; gives JH's and Michael Faraday's recommendations.
Thanks WS for 'kind expressions on my behalf.' Believes these may be the last words he may write.
Visited Liverpool for inspection of School Frigate. Observed Triton. C. P. Smyth will install large telescope at Alta Vista; WS sends excerpt from son's letter. C. P. Smyth also works on spectral line observations.
Success of C. P. Smyth's Teneriffe expedition pleases JH; anxious for declination of nebulae taken from high altitudes. Upset over G. J. Stoney's reproduction of JH's collimating telescope without giving him credit.
Asks JH to recommend C. P. Smyth for R.S.L. fellowship. Will avoid R.S.L. meetings due to declining health. Considers a second edition of Cycle of Celestial Objects.
Agrees to support C. P. Smyth for membership in R.S.L. Objects to C. P. Smyth's statement regarding his discoveries observing at high altitudes. Stresses importance of variable star work.
Thanks JH for discovering an important error in a work WS asked him to proof read. Asks JH about a variable in Canis Minor over which there is some debate.
JH's letter of recommendation for C. P. Smyth misdirected. Little time remains for nomination.
Has heard WS is publishing an English translation of François Arago's astronomical writings. Urges against including Arago's lectures if the Italian translation is indicative of their level of accuracy. Lists numerous errors in that edition. [Marked 'not sent.' Note added to CDraft (RS:HS 25.13.13) states: 'A letter differently worded but noting some of these points, but not all (for particular reasons) if I remember right was sent.'
Pleased that WS included François Arago's lectures in his compilation. Believes the Italian edition could have been better edited. Remarks on the Leviathan problem.
Thanks JH for advice on several persons and for suggestion concerning the Leviathan. Remarks on R. C. Carrington's circumpolar star work. Writes to R.S.L. Council concerning François Arago's nomination for medal.
Makes suggestion on freeing the Leviathan from its trapped position.
'Making perhaps my last attack' on Gamma Virginis. Night air is increasingly detrimental to health.
Wishes to put WS's final version of Gamma Virginis orbit in new edition of his catalogue. Asks questions about Mediterranean.
Sends JH copy of his work on Mediterranean; answers some of JH's questions.
Elaborates on JH's questions concerning the Mediterranean. Refers him to Capt. [T. A. B.] Spratt.
Thanks JH for a copy of the new edition of Outlines Astr.