Query regarding positions of stars in the various star catalogues.
Query regarding positions of stars in the various star catalogues.
Acknowledges in JH's father's name FB's notice of the upcoming annular eclipse of 1820. Stresses the importance of observing it.
Requests FB's paper on the eclipse and the reports on observations of the eclipse that JH has received. Discusses criteria to be used in deciding what to print in the Astronomical Society's journal.
If FB will send him his paper on the eclipse, he will write his report. Regarding the publication of information received from various members. Duties of the Foreign Secretary.
Thanks FB for informing him of his election to the Astronomical Society.
Thanks for valuable communication, which will be laid before the Board of Longitude. Has completed own paper for the Astronomical Society. J. F. Encke has sent more copies of the proof-map. Ernesto Capocci's observations of the comet similar to his own. Has been unable to use Charles Tully's or John Ramage's telescopes yet owing to clouds.
Remarks on FB's address on astronomy [fragment only].
On 23 Nov. in the evening, at what JH calls an irregular meeting of the R.S.L., J. G. Children was elected Secretary, to serve with JH, who had been secretary for some years. JH urges that the R.S.L. and its members must now rise beyond this shabbiness and move ahead.
Has just had a letter from W. S. Stratford announcing his decision to resign from the secretaryship of the Astronomical Society. Comments on this. He himself is also thinking of resigning the Presidency at the Anniversary meeting. Regarding the microscopes.
Would FB take the chair at the next meeting as he is busy nebulae-hunting. Regarding a printer for the papers of the Astronomical Society. Would like his own paper printed before June. Discusses J. J. Littrow's optical paper. Sends article on Light, which he has written for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.
Remarks on Saturn and measurable discs of stars.
Is glad Thomas Brisbane was in the chair at the meeting. Will be pleased to join the party on Friday. The Parramatta observations. Someone to supervise their publication. His own recent observations.
Charles Babbage has every reason to be grateful for FB's letter to the Times. Richard Sheepshanks and the observations. The ring of Saturn. Has been observing lots of Wilhelm Struve's double stars.
Further regarding Richard Taylor the printer. Reports on observations of Mars by William Pearson. JH's new micrometer is aiding his observations of double stars.
Will be unable to attend the Council Meeting of the Astronomical Society. Gives his views on accommodation for the Astronomical Society at Somerset House. J. Soldner's tables. Will send for G. B. Airy's parcel.
Concerning the necessity for two observatories in the Southern Hemisphere.
Provides FB, Chairman of the Greenwich Visitation Committee, with detailed recommendations for the preparation of catalogues coming out of the Greenwich observations.
More on the observations and publication of results of the Greenwich Observatory [see JH's 1831-2-10].
Recommends some changes in committee report being prepared that deals with the use to be made of the Royal Observatory's observational data.
Suggests an improvement in measuring techniques for astronomical observations, by making the angular measurement by direct and then reflected vision. JH wonders whether this idea might be appended to a paper currently under consideration by the R.A.S.