Mentions illness.
Describes work on fossil cirripedes. Asks to keep specimens somewhat longer.
Mentions illness.
Describes work on fossil cirripedes. Asks to keep specimens somewhat longer.
No summary available.
Hooker’s imprisonment.
Birth of Leonard Darwin.
Barnacles will never end; on to fossils.
Would he drop him a few lines on the orbit of the meteor for the R.A.S. Robert Potts of Trinity is to publish by subscription a translation of Robert Simson's Porisms.
In looking through Lamont 1845-6 he found two observations of Neptune not previously recognized. Thanks for his memoir on the orbits of double stars.
Returning with gratitude HT's Statesman, which stimulated much political and social reflection in JH.
Family and political news.
Asks permission to clean specimen. Describes research on cirripedes.
A. G. Melville will start Meteorological Observatory at Queen's College, Galway. CPS discusses JH article on plans for building an ice-making machine.
RF’s specimens have arrived.
Discusses points of lunar and solar eclipse observations.
Marriage of HH's eldest daughter. Thanks for JH's letter of introduction to George Bishop and J. R. Hind.
No summary available.
Answers questions raised by AH in his 1850-1-19 [letter contains notes made by AH].
Because of health, CD will postpone coming to London until all drawings are finished.
Asks JdeCS, if he is able "with any honesty", to "purloin" for him a proof-sheet of Frederick Dixon’s plate with cirripedes [in Geology and fossils … of Sussex (1850)].
Requests statement of total owed to JdeCS as a guide to the future.
Thanks for congratulations on marriage of HH's daughter. Notes HH's review of J. C. Prichard's Natural History of Man in December issue of Quarterly Review, written while on holiday in Armenia.
Has received an interesting communication from the Rev. J. B. Reade of Stone, near Aylesbury, on the zodiacal light. Comments on this.
Glad to have seen Lady Herschel and children. Is recovering slowly. Thanks JH for interest in [Francis] Ronalds's work. Discusses paper ES has submitted for R.S.P.T.
[A. C.] Petersen [?] claims to have found a new comet near JH's nebula #379. Look for it, but do not announce this discovery.
Proposes priorities for allocating £1000 granted to R.S.L. by government. Disagrees with RM and Edward Sabine; R.S.L. should not assume responsibility for observatory or any other permanent institution.