A committee meeting is being called [see JH's 1846-10-22].
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A committee meeting is being called [see JH's 1846-10-22].
Has obtained puzzling results when reducing JH's observations of the sixth satellite of Saturn.
Gives WW permission to print JH's translation of 'The Walk' by Friedrich Schiller. Comments further on the acceptance of pentametric and hexametric verse by the English, and includes a few verses of JH's own. JH well along in having his Cape Results in print.
Has secured the permission JE requested to allow [Karl I.] Gerhardt to get transcripts of letters held by R.S.L. from G. W. Leibniz to Henry Oldenburg. [Continued 1846-11-6] Mentions controversy over discovery of Neptune. Thanks JE for publications sent.
Gives corrections to the proof copy of JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.' Comments on the failure in England to discover the new planet [Neptune] and on his own and James Challis's role in the controversy that erupted.
Being unable to attend committee meeting to consider recommendations for Royal Medal, elaborates reasons for thinking Edward Sabine's memoirs on terrestrial magnetism worthy of award.
Proposes a plan for the distribution of printed copies of the star catalogues [see GA's 1845-7-25].
Has made some minor adjustments in JH's satellite of Saturn results [see JH's 1846-11-2], but the major discrepancy still exists.
WH's theorems on ellipsoids are new to JH, but JH is unfamiliar with the field, so they may not actually be new. Wishes to master mathematics. Still working on Cape observations. Believes Neptune was almost an English discovery, and would have been well-named Minerva.
Comments on calculation of star locations, and how to make special observations.
GA's suggestions [see GA's 1846-11-19] have helped JH solve his problem; now JH has a problem with observations of the second satellite of Saturn.
Informing SC that U. J. J. Leverrier has asked JH to accept the Copley Medal on his behalf.
Will put the matter of UL's medal into the hands of Edward Sabine, the Foreign Secretary, who will hand it to the Ambassador for delivery to France.