Will find one friend at the R.S.L. Club dinner next Thursday.
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Will find one friend at the R.S.L. Club dinner next Thursday.
Sends deeds already signed by J. J. Guest. JH should sign and return them. [Annotation by unknown hand: Mrs. Hollier's marriage and settlement.]
Sends letter from [P. H. L. ] Boguslawski for JH's magnetic report. [John] Lefroy has found line of greatest intensity further south in Canada than ES expected.
[J. C.] Ross has returned safely. Ross has a box for JH.
Regarding the storage of the Standard weights and measures.
Has succeeded in increasing stations around Alps for meteorological observations. [G. B.] Airy is very obliging. Hopes one day to collect all meteorological observations in Sur le climat de la Belgique.
Enclosing specimens of his chromatype; comments on how these were produced and their characteristics. Is very busy with the Annual Exhibition of the Polytechnic Society.
Sends specimens of works which are to go to press. Has had an estimate for the printing. Nomenclature has to be settled first.
Describes some available glass discs, which might do for making lenses for a large refracting telescope [see GA's 1843-8-30].
Could he loan him the Russian observations. Recent readings of the barometer.
Requires information on an actinometer.
Regarding bringing N. L. Lacaille up to a modern period. Regarding a table of precessions. FB's sister.
Explains how it comes about that GW is looking for a position at the British Museum.
Thanks for letter and advice. Has been able to get copies of William Parsons' (3rd Earl of Rosse) papers. Would like advice on the size of the grinding tool. Hopes to avail himself of JH's invitation to visit Collingwood.
Provides prices and delivery times for a variety of different sizes of refracting telescopes, as well as some mounting advice.
Thanks for letter and loan of the books. Regarding the movement of waves of the atmosphere.
Talks about British Museum business, including the purchase of fossils and the hiring of George R. Waterhouse.
W. R. Dawes observes sub-division of Saturn's rings. WS continues observing double stars recommended by JH.
Cannot at present accept Lady Herschel's invitation to Collingwood. Is getting married.