Encloses copy of a paper for JH's comments. Regarding reviews of GA's paper on 'Tides.'
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Encloses copy of a paper for JH's comments. Regarding reviews of GA's paper on 'Tides.'
A notice of meeting of the Standards Committee, together with an indication of business to be conducted at that meeting.
Changes the date of a Board of Visitors' meeting and urges JH to be there.
Regarding glass for the telescope for the Cape Town Observatory?
Regarding electrometers and their efficiency.
Further regarding glass for telescope. Postscript relating experiments with electricity.
Has JH received Thomas Maclear's observations on Encke's comet?
Regarding Cape Town telescopes. Has written to Thomas Maclear for observations on Encke's comet.
Regarding JH's forthcoming visit to the Greenwich Observatory.
Further observations on object glasses.
Does not believe that a magnetic congress held at this time would be productive or representative; a better job could be done by letter.
Cannot explain why GA's letter did not reach JH.
Informing JH that he certainly wrote to him from Limerick.
Regarding F. W. Bessel's letter on the irregularity of proper motion in stars. Is it worth printing Nevil Maskelyne's observations on star places?
Expands on GA's proposed letter writing scheme in place of holding a magnetic congress [see GA's 1844-7-30].
A note accompanying a draft of the report on magnetic observations to date at British stations, and a circular to be sent out.
Hopes JH will write a memoir of Francis Baily.
Has sent on the draft report on magnetic observations to W. S. Stratford for completion [see JH's 1844-10-13].
Regarding object planes for the telescope.
Giving abridged history of the establishment of the new Board of Visitors to the Royal Observatory. Details concerning the Nautical Almanac. Standards commission.