Sending two copies of the 'Extracts relating to Standards.' Remarks on these extracts. Requests JH to fix a date for a meeting to discuss the report.
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Sending two copies of the 'Extracts relating to Standards.' Remarks on these extracts. Requests JH to fix a date for a meeting to discuss the report.
Agrees to proposed meeting date [see GA's 1841-1-16], and encourages GA to come with a draft final report prepared.
A notice of meeting of the Standards Commission.
A notice of meeting of the Standards Commission.
A note to accompany a draft of the report of the Standards Commission.
Sends JH a copy of draft report [see JH's 1841-1-20], and indicates procedure for coming meeting.
A notice of meeting of the Standards Commission.
Asks JH to put in writing proposals JH had made at a Standards Commission meeting, especially those relating to nomenclature [see GA's 1841-2-8].
A note to accompany proposals for the Standards Commission to consider [see GA's 1841-2-17]; twenty pages of proposals are appended.
Sending draft of report and appendix. Specimen of a gauging scale.
Has received material sent by GA [see GA's 1841-3-20]; comments on the report and JH's unavailability for meetings of the Standards Commission in the near future.
A note to accompany additions, comments, and emendations relating to the report of the Standards Commission.
Seeks clarification from JH about a number of matters in the draft report of the Standards Commission [see JH's 1841-5-12 or earlier].
Comments on additional proposals for consideration by the Standards Commission [see JH's 1841-3-20 or later].
A summons to a meeting of the Standards Commission, together with some proposals for amending the report.
Does not expect to come to the meeting [see GA's 1841-5-18], but sends comments on altered sections of the draft report.
A note to accompany a number of papers on the 'toleration of inaccuracy,' a question of concern to JH in relation to the setting up of standards.
Informing JH of a meeting of the Commission on Standards at Somerset House on 28 May 1841.
Believes no error should be legally tolerated [see GA's 1841-5-24] in selling goods; thus the seller always provides a trifle over the due quantity.
Regarding JH's examination of the observations of equinoxes and solstices; GA assures him that these occurrences are observed by Cambridge and Greenwich, though JH does not mention it. Hopes he has received the report of the last 'Standards' meeting.