Thanks GS for his paper on fluorescent spectra; JH is interested in having these rays used on quartz, hoping to find his 'thermic' rays acting.
Thanks GS for his paper on fluorescent spectra; JH is interested in having these rays used on quartz, hoping to find his 'thermic' rays acting.
Sends work on shooting stars. Requests all information on telescopic meteors. Realizes that the frequency (nombre horaire) and the variation (variation horaire) of the shooting stars remains unknown. Hopes for global cooperation in this matter. Sends work on total solar eclipse.
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What quantity of copper coins for Ireland and colonies should be called for in bids? Estimate at least 300 tons for Ireland. What quantity in sterling is equivalent to one ton of copper pence, halfpence, and farthings? What colony ordered half- and quarter-farthings? [JH annotation: Ton of copper = £224. Ionian Isles and Ceylon use small copper coins.]
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Frightened by MH's account of daughter Amelia's serious burns. Encloses revised account sheet that shows £196 missing. Son William will come to Collingwood soon. Saw daughter Caroline yesterday.
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Asks for William Lassell's address in Malta, as JH's son, William, may be able to stop in to visit Lassell.
Asks if CSB can help him obtain specimen of Verruca.
Sending letters of introduction for JH's son [William] when he visits India and wishing him success in his appointment.
Grateful for AH’s long letter and suggestions. Delighted at what he says about "complemental males". CD feared no one would believe in them but now that Owen, Dana, and AH accept them, he is content.
Agrees with AH on cross-impregnation; has collected facts on this head but has done nothing with them.
AH’s paper on Alcippe [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14] caused him to lose sleep over its anomalous structure.
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Thank daughter Isabella for account of Amelia Herschel's condition. Bank [of England] is in trouble again. Lists [Christmas] cards received. Attended Michael Faraday's wonderful lecture last night.
“Grieved to hear of the great loss my brother has suffered.” Unfortunately, fires at sea and shipwreck have become common. He will survive “and the name of Sir Alfred Wallace may [yet] shine forth.” Columbia is a gold mining community of fifteen thousand inhabitants, and is growing rapidly based on the achievements of our Company in providing water for the mines. Miners mostly get their own way. Foreigners are supposed to have a right to employment if they pay a state tax, but “Chinese and Mexicans are not allowed by the miners to work at all...and they carry out their ideas of liberty and equality by driving them out.” But our Company would not be pushed around when some miners protested that our rates are too high. I told them we must maintain current prices, and cut off the most prominent activists from buying water at any price, which deterred other “insolent” complainers.
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