Would like to add JH's name to the first published list [of Scientific Relief Fund]. Regarding donations to the fund.
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Would like to add JH's name to the first published list [of Scientific Relief Fund]. Regarding donations to the fund.
Did his work on the Southern Constellations bring him into contact with a Frederic Houtmann? Regarding a manuscript stated to be by Galileo.
[Form letter] Announces 4 June visitation of Royal Observatory by Board of Visitors.
Regarding one of JH's riddles. Sees he must write an article on Frederic Houtmann. Will be glad of the information on Galileo.
What does he make of the accompanying quotation from Amerigo Vespucci?
Had a card to visit Greenwich Observatory the same day as he received JH's letter so was unable to visit him.
Sending a section of their new atlas of the world, which includes some new features. Would like JH's comments. Will send the complete work when published if JH would like to see it.
Asks permission to include JH on R.S.L. committee, headed by C. J. Selwyn (relative of George Peacock) and Dr. Beale, to purchase portrait of Peacock from artist Douglas Blakiston. Self-recording magnetic instruments have reached Washington safely.
Regarding the faculty pew in the new church. Is sorry he was out when JH called. Hears he is contemplating a change in his property.
The B.A.A.S. meeting is to be held at Aberdeen and would be pleased to accommodate JH should he be attending the meeting. Will not be going himself.
Thanks for his pamphlet; will comment on it later when he has properly read it. Regarding Maine de Biran and his philosophy. Gives some of his own theories.
Comments on the effect of intensity of illumination on the distinctness of the spectrum.
Will assist JH in preparing review of terrestrial magnetism. Progress in publishing vol. 2 of observations from St. Helena. Prince Albert favors new observatories and hopes to see JH [at B.A.A.S. meeting] in Aberdeen. Research in British colonies. Demonstration of Mr. Gossert's apparatus by [T. R.] Robinson.
Called at Burlington House and sees that more subscriptions have been added to the fund.
Thanks for JH's article on Physical Geography from the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Comments on this and gives details of some of his own researches into the causes of ocean currents.
Responds to same request as JH identifies in his 1859-6-11.
Pointing out an error in JH's statement in an encyclopaedia that there are no serpents in Borneo.
Sending two volumes of his own Cosmos. Regrets he did not visit him in 1857.
Was pleased to receive JH's note. Further regarding the existence of serpents in Borneo. Suggests form of correction in encyclopaedia.
A. D. Bache reports that self-recording instruments are installed at Washington observatory and ready to begin observations. ES is making field observations to confirm changes in magnetic lines in England since ES's 1837 survey. [JH annotation: Summary of Bache's letter. Joint survey by Smithsonian Institution and U.S. Coast Survey will begin when Bache receives full instructions from Sabine.]