Sending copy of GA's 'Tides and Waves' for Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; would be glad of JH's comments. Also encloses his eclipse paper.
Sending copy of GA's 'Tides and Waves' for Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; would be glad of JH's comments. Also encloses his eclipse paper.
Needs a good artisan to construct the framework of a solar spectrum photographic apparatus.
Sorry to have caused trouble. Please send JH's 'description and sketches' to Peter Stewart at 65 Cornhill.
Answer to one of JH's on 9 January [apparently on equatorial telescopes].
No summary available.
No summary available.
Asks for account.
Discusses delay of Reptiles by Thomas Bell. Asks them to inform R. B. Hinds of delay.
Asks SPW to have obsidian specimens and book [Dieudonné de Gratet de Dolomieu, Voyage aux îles de Lipari (1783)] ready when he comes.
Looks forward to the possibility of a visit from RJ.
Regarding William Cubitt (Engineer of the Dover Railway) and the proposed blasting down of the cliffs between Dover and Folkestone.
WB's packet arrived safely today.
Intends to accept offer [see GA's 1843-1-18]; JH questions the correctness of P. S. Laplace's theory of capillary action.
Protesting about the refusal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh to publish Thomas Brisbane's magnetic observations; hopes it will be reconsidered. Thinks JF's theory on glaciers has good points, but comments on some of its shortcomings.
Is planning to blow down part of the cliffs near Dover for the railway and gives details of how he plans to do it.
Ask Edward Sabine for authority to insert additional notes [on barometric observations] into report already at printer's. Does not advise publishing observations. Asked Howard Elphinstone to send observations to WB.
Discusses his account.
Sends addresses [for subscribers to Zoology].
Comments on JSH’s botanical work with his parishioners. Lyell will be pleased that he has done some fossil botanical work.
Describes a Geological Society meeting about Edward Charlesworth’s complaints.
Further news of his proposed visit to Dover to see the blasting of the cliffs?
Regarding projected committee for the construction of new Standards for weights and measures. Any observations or further instructions for captain visiting the China coast?
Details of arrangements for reaching Dover in preparation for the blasting of the cliffs.