Discusses various telescopes of his father and his father's [erroneous] announcement of his discovery of four additional satellites of Uranus.
Discusses various telescopes of his father and his father's [erroneous] announcement of his discovery of four additional satellites of Uranus.
Reply to FC's 1870-2-8.
Responds that R. A. Proctor's theory [see GA's 1870-2-5] is possible, and explains why.
A long rambling statement against the metric system and its proposed introduction into India.
Returns proofs with slight alterations. Encloses copy of letter JH sent to the Times on similar subject.
Thanks MH for copying reply from JH's son John to Col. Tennant's letter about 'ruinous' metric system. T. F. and Amelia [Herschel] Wade arrived in China. News of storms and shipping disasters. Denounces papal infallibility. Reviews Pierre Lanfrey's life of Napoleon. Tell JH's son John about changes in southern stars. Compares lectures of Chandra Kesub-den to sermons of John Wesley.
Proposes a method of defraying the cost of coinage by means of seigniorage involving silver coinage.
Advice and guidance on the path he is to pursue when he goes to university.
Gratitude for copy of Bank's published volume on gold coinage controversy. Regrets that volume does not contain letter to the Times containing U.S. assay master W. E. Du Bois's testimony to integrity of British gold coinage, 'a most satisfactory answer to Mr. Segal's charge against it.'
Much on poetry; for a sonnet on the sun by EC, JH sends some photographs of the sun.