Lists magnetic books received from ES. It will be some time before JH can direct his attention to magnetic issues.
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Lists magnetic books received from ES. It will be some time before JH can direct his attention to magnetic issues.
Criticizes point in [recipient's] scheme for issuing bank notes.
Supplies what is in effect a testimonial to NP's abilities for use in NP's quest to become director of the Madras Observatory.
Asks WS opinion of attaining a civil pension for N. R. Pogson in honor of his astronomical accomplishment.
Asks for information about wrecks at sea and lives lost.
Thanks for a number of RF's writings; asks for more rainfall data to try to establish a relationship between rainfall and the solar cycle.
Congratulates NP on appointment to Madras Observatory. States that he will use both Isis and Hestia nomenclature without misgiving. Furnishes names from Greek mythology for NP to use for asteroid discoveries.
Will not be able to produce his article in time for the January issue, but could write a much better article on meteorology if given longer, till July.
Thanks for all the material received; comments on some of RF's meteorological ideas.
Thanks JW for his double star catalogue; JH comments on a few items contained therein.
Comments on RF's writing on drifting ice; comments extensively on RF's ideas about air circulation.
Comments on WL's nebulae diagrams and asks for more.
Comments on difficulties JH finds in some of RF's writings.
Signs Charles Shadwell's recommendation. Sends new maps of earth, which include more surface with less distortion. Sends copy of JH's Telescope.
Asks for information concerning the magnetic observations and compilations made in various countries and regions.
A note with a copy of JH's article on telescopes for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, together with some papers to be forwarded to James Glaisher.
Has tried a number of different fractional projections, some more interesting than others [see GA's 1860-12-7].
[It having been asserted in the Times that the Russians have not communicated about the climate at Pekin], JH notes that in fact wonderfully detailed meteorological observations for Pekin from 1850 to 1855 have been widely distributed by the Russians.
Please withdraw [?]'s name from ballot until JH can confer with him when [he] comes home on leave next year. Thanks for care that JS is showing to Alexander S. Herschel.
Thanks for declination readings from photograms at Kew. Thinks meteorological observatory on Vesuvius is good idea, but not sure a magnetic one is. Includes two charts of world.