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JSH asks for wild specimens of Senecio squalidus to be sent to Cambridge for drying.
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Will arrive in England in mid-August. Mentions convention of German scientists on 18 September and invites JH.
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Submits JH's manuscript on Thomas Young's mathematical works for HG's biography of Young. Notes their excessive obscurity. Reasons for insisting that JH's name be added no longer exist. Asks HG's votes for two candidates for Athenaeum.
Provides HG [who was writing a biography of Thomas Young] with a detailed evaluation of Young's contributions to physical science, e.g., Young's development of the principle of interference in optics.
Has difficulty observing sun spots. Thomas Maclear sends WS information for next year's occultation of Alpha Tauri. Completes rotating roof for personal observatory.
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Some comments about the [Vignette] together with its return.
Regarding authors for the Bridgewater Treatises. Would he write on astronomy? Would like his opinion on a paper by John Herapath on optics.
Writes to postpone proposed pilgrimage to the tomb of John Ray due to the death of George IV.