About a time conflict involving the R.S.L. and Visitation Day at the Royal Observatory.
About a time conflict involving the R.S.L. and Visitation Day at the Royal Observatory.
Asks JH for measures of several double stars.
A note enclosed with the printed observations made with the Northumberland equatorial telescope.
Has directed the printers, Taylors, to send JH's booksellers the parts of the Barometrographia as issued, free of all costs. The science of meteorology attracts little attention at the moment.
Believes that RS's suggested correction, 'when translated into its equivalent value in terms of the inclination,' will provide sought-for values.
JH's Cape Results is ready for publication. Gratitude for support of late Hugh Percy. Regrets HP did not live to see completion of Cape Results. Trusts that AP will continue support. Asks for interview. Encloses correspondence between HP and JH to show how arrangement originated.
Suggests JH visit tomorrow at noon.
No summary available.
Reports that the printing of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française... and N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere (which includes a preface by JH) is 'progressing satisfactorily.'
No summary available.
A notice of meeting of the Standards Commission.
Further to resolving the time conflict [see GA's 1847-5-15] and sending out invitations for Visitation Day.
No summary available.
The alterations to N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere are nearly finished.
Sends a proof of the preface that JH wrote for N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere; WS also gave a proof to G. B. Airy and to Richard Sheepshanks and requested that they comment on it.
No summary available.
WS has given instructions for forwarding JH's letters to Laplace [?] Lodge on Sunday and to Alton afterwards.
Wants Thomas Henderson's ambiguous reductions mentioned in N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere.
Is concerned about the location of packages relating to the new edition of N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere.
CD would like to call on JDH.