From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Fairbairn
Date:
[1836-7]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.145
Summary:
Feels unfitted for the appointment of Commissioner offered in JF's letter of 13 July.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Feels unfitted for the appointment of Commissioner offered in JF's letter of 13 July.
Believes that JH and TM can compile a better comet catalog together than they could separately.
Has received Francis Baily's Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed [1835]. Comments that its best part is Baily's restoration of the British Catalogue. JH now thinks less of Flamsteed.
Notes a discrepancy in TM's latest observations and those of Thomas Brisbane.
Congratulates TM on the birth of his son, George.