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Returns [WB's] paper on the zodiacal light. Notes error and offers JH's ideas about light's source.
Cannot accept the invitation to stay during the B.A.A.S. meeting in Edinburgh, as JH will be unable to come.
Clarifies results of pressure oscillations on two coasts of India as similar despite different weather conditions, and deems results thus unsatisfactory; explores reasons and suggests solutions for lack of success.
Believes that Edward Sabine has brought J. H. Lefroy's paper on the Aurora Borealis to JH's notice. Now presents another report on this subject, with comments.
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Thanks JH for some historical information on events of the first century A.D. [for TL's study on the life of St. Paul].
Sends a copy of the notice in the Times of a fall of ice in Rossshire, also an account of a similar fall in India in 1826. Comments on these occurrences. [James] Dalmahay has constructed a slide rule for computing the dew-point.
Has addressed a letter to the East India Company, which has raised a storm.
About some difficulty in trying to determine [Andrew] Graham's interest in the Trivandrum post.
Requests permission to include foreign species in Fossil Cirrpedia (1851). Asks whether sponges arrived. Has not yet heard from Pearce about Pollicipes concinus.
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[John Russell] Hind is being considered for the post of astronomer at Trivandrum in India.
Please ask JH to send receipts to account for £316 spent on equatorial telescope from Munich.
[Andrew] Graham is not interested in the post [see JH's 1850-4-23].
Encloses note from accountant general of Navy about payment of Cape telescope. Send receipt to FB to complete transaction.
Sends [J. W.] Pastorff's solar observations [see HS's 1850-4-16] as JH's own property.
A Mr. Patton has applied for a position as astronomer. Is he 'conversant with practical observing'?