H. D. Harness no longer resides at Mint. Explains division of JH's taxes between Collingwood and London residence at Harley Street.
H. D. Harness no longer resides at Mint. Explains division of JH's taxes between Collingwood and London residence at Harley Street.
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Making arrangements to send two of JH's sons to Greenwich, so that G. B. Airy can take them to Woolwich [Arsenal] to watch mortar practice.
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Detailed response to MS of introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt II] Flora Novae-Zelandiae [1853–5]. CD will curse JDH when, in a year or two, he is at his species book, for "having put so many hostile facts so confoundedly well".
Thanks JDD for copy of his Crustacea [1852–5]
and D. D. Owen’s Report [of a geological survey of Wisconsin, etc. (1852)].
Returning JDH’s MS and books.
Reading Mrs Gaskell’s Ruth [1853].
Gives his opinion on some difficulties that have arisen in connection with the establishment of the school for the poor at Down.
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Hopes JL will call application of JH's brother-in-law for position of Secretary of Bank of Asia to attention of a director, who is JL's relative.
Discusses publication of Fossil Cirripedia.
Comments on paper by JAHdeB ["Les crustacés fossiles du terrain Crétacé du Limbourg", Verh. Uitg. Comm. Geol. Beschrijving & Kaart Ned. 2 (1854): 11–137].
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Has found a seventeenth-century mathematical manuscript amongst Francis Baily's papers with JH's handwriting on it; can he explain the mystery? There is also a letter from P. L. M. Maupertius to James Bradley, which he proposes sending to the R.S.L.
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