Would like to ask a few more questions regarding JH's method outlined in his last letter. Can UL submit it to the Institute?
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Would like to ask a few more questions regarding JH's method outlined in his last letter. Can UL submit it to the Institute?
Delay in printing WK's meteorology paper.
Thanks JH for Cape Results sent through [F. G. W.] Struve. Further grateful for the N. L. Lacaille and Jérôme Lalande works sent to the observatory. Appreciates reduction of the moon results as well as the magnetic observation of 1845. Reveals new development in double star zones[?]. Comments on making magnetic observations.
Has received three packets, dated and initialed. Further comments regarding Julius Caesar and the calendar.
Asks JH's opinion about GA's plan not to print a separate volume of magnetic and meteorological observations for 1848.
Will reconsider the proposal about printing observations [see JH's 1849-3-29], and get back to JH.
Has little advice to offer JH about time calculation [see JH's 1849-3-29], except for fairly standard reminders.
Asks for JH's comments on YV's specific double star observations. YV presents the mathematical method he uses to calculate double star orbits, which he had presented to the Paris Académie in 1847, but it was not published.
Describes HJ's formal petition against Stuart Watley's bill for reform of marriage laws.
Thanks for JH's corrections to HJ's formal petition [against marriage reform bill].
Read part of JH's letter to the Institute and Yvon Villarceau also presented his own method. Will see the letter printed in the Comptes rendus.
Glad to hear that Margaret Louisa [JH's daughter] is coming to visit GA's family; could JH send along the key to the R.A.S. strong box?
Looks forward to the new edition of JH's Treatise Astr. Comments on the atmosphere and gases on the surface of the moon. What does JH think of these comments?
Some responses to the question of copyright and of revision of articles prepared for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.
Has just published a small work to remove popular superstitions. Presents a copy to JH as a mark of respect.
Has received the proof sheets of his contributions to the Admiralty Manual and would like to make a few alterations. Has heard no news of the Madras appointment.
A note about forwarding papers related to the double star question [see JH's 1849-4-9].
Returning papers of Yvon Villarceau and an abstract of them, together with comments on them.
Identifies the positive features of the aneroid barometer as in use by the Navy.
Is thinking of withdrawing his son from Christ's Hospital owing to his frequent epileptic fits. Should he inform the Prince Consort? Outlines his recent photographic work.