Must decline invitation to dinner due to poor health.
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Must decline invitation to dinner due to poor health.
Wonders how JH's projected volume on Astronomy is progressing. Would also like a short biography of Francis Bacon.
Discusses study of light, JH's theories on the subject, and his own photometer observations. Asks JH for further explanations of his theory.
JG is revising his diary.
Has received the chronometer and will return it to Lister, together with his remarks on apertures. Charles May has found another individual suffering from color blindness. A friend has successfully made a reflecting microscope.
Reminds JH to send his catalog of double stars.
Passing on the offer of assistance by Frederick Augustus (Duke of Sussex) for JH's projected visit to the Cape of Good Hope.
Will he be visiting Cambridge this Spring?
Encourages JH to undertake a proposed trip to the Southern Hemisphere [letter completed 1832-5-1].