Sends a correction for the ninth edition of JH's Outlines Astr.
Sends a correction for the ninth edition of JH's Outlines Astr.
Acknowledges receipt of paper on nebulae.
On a correction to a report [JH's obituary on William Whewell].
Avoid forcing metric system on India. Hopes Commission will adopt 'geometrical system of [A. T.] Kupffer and others. Winter weather. Family health and news. Alexander S. Herschel gave lecture at Leeds; reports many Japanese students at Glasgow. JH predicts that industrious Japanese may supplant Europe and America in next century. Details of JH's humorous plan for 'telegraphic personal transfer' [teleportation] to accelerate travel. Rash of bombings by mail in London. Attacks on police.
No summary available.
Advice on choosing executors, drawing will, and disposing of MB's property. Sends semiannual dividend from Drummond's.
Tells MH about the wedding plans of son John and Mary Power; comments on the health of daughter Constance, and sends a silly sketch by Emma Hardcastle. [Part of the letter is illegible.]
Thanks WS for describing Aristotle's and Richard Whately's observation of the great sensitivity of the eye's lateral portion. Congratulates WS on becoming Dean of Norwich. Draft discusses miracles and lists possible arguments against WS's idea that miracles are not a violation of nature
About some flowers, including a new variety being advertised.
Comments on UL's paper on meteors. Outlines the nebular theory of the solar system.
Regarding gales of wind and their relation to violent changes in barometric pressure.
Notes that JH had pointed out the perpendicularity of the direction of wind to the direction of a wavefront's advance. Encourages research on the causes of such meteorological phenomena.
Is in poor health; laments poor reception of his translation of the Iliad.
Alterations to MB's will. Objects to MB's plan to return to live in Mr. Binsted's house at Anstey.
Anecdote about William Whewell. Religious beliefs in England. Foolish opinion about moon expressed in the Times.
Is he acquainted with his ordinary reading glass? Gives details. Always carries a small one around with him for reading small print; thinks there would be a good market for them.
Outlining suitability of various types of glass for optical work. Gives details of theories of his reading lenses and calls attention to one of his own papers in the R.S.P.T. for 1821.
No mention of Emmanuel Liais's L'espace céleste in English journals. Contact London publishers to find translator for it. Alexander Herschel is now professor of natural philosophy at Andersonian Institution in Glasgow. Hopes JB's elegant method of measuring gravity by torsion will not die before being put into practice.
Not willing to be involved in translation of French work on astronomy [see JB's 1867-2].
Gives more reasons for objecting to MB, 80 years old, leaving Stubbington and moving to Anstey [see JH's 1867-2-10].