From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
1821-4
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.157 & 20.115
Summary:
Would CB breakfast with JH in order to meet members of the Correction Committee.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Would CB breakfast with JH in order to meet members of the Correction Committee.
Elected to membership in Astronomical Society. Thanks for GM's paper on eclipse.
HS was elected associate of Astronomical Society. This year's prize relates to theory of Saturn's satellites. Does HS plan to continue his table of apparent places of fixed stars?
Thanks for JN's 'Comets Elemts' and book on libration of moon. Please send JN's and J. L. Pons's first observations of comet. Invites JN to become associate of Astronomical Society.