The memoir of JH's aunt is forthcoming. Comments on old and new style in calendars.
The memoir of JH's aunt is forthcoming. Comments on old and new style in calendars.
Some comments about dates related to JH's aunt Caroline Herschel.
CD asks if he may have the use of the cirripedes JS collected in Portugal. He will need to break up or make a section of at least one of each species.
Expresses admiration for JS’s paper on Malta ["On recent depressions in the land", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 234–40], with its striking demonstration of the change of level between land and water there discovered.
About legal matters related to the death of Aunt Caroline, as well as identifying friends and dignitaries who paid their respects. Deals with bills to be paid, and with the question of a memorial tablet in the church.
Sends own article on magnetic surveys at sea. Requests comments. Discusses foreign distribution of star catalogues approved by the council and election of foreign members of R.S.L.
Responds to a number of JH's concerns about buildings, instruments and printing at the Royal Observatory [see JH's 1848-1-22 & 1847-12-30].
Responds to suggestions by JH [see JH's 1848-1-22]; is worried about giving too much information.
Further regarding the distribution of the J. J. F. Lalande catalogue.
Waited for legal documents from L. Kirchoff before responding to AK's letter announcing death of JH's aunt Caroline. Named AK's son Adolph as JH's attorney. Authorizes disposition of CLH's papers and possessions. Approves tombstone inscription by Mr. Müller. Donates portrait of William Herschel to Mrs. Groskopff.
Encloses article for JH to work on. Can he inform him of Encke's Christian names?
Is sorry to hear that they are not to have the services of Adam Sedgwick. Would be pleased if JH would write to C. R. Darwin. Thinks that 200 pages will be quite long enough for the Admiralty Manual.
Caroline Herschel's death and funeral. Awaiting JH's instructions for disposition of property and headstone inscription. Erroneous biographies appearing in French and German papers. Encloses copy of response from Mr. Hahn, bookseller, to manuscript by Margaret Louisa Herschel. [P.S., 3 Feb. 1848] Accidentally burned JH's Latin inscription for Caroline Herschel. Does JH have copy?
The paragraph he sent JH was not intended for his address. Augustus De Morgan must be under some misapprehension. Has asked De Morgan to send JH the revised form.
Has received a letter from W. C. Bond of the Cambridge Observatory (U.S.A.), who speaks of the satellite of Neptune. Bond also sends details of the stars around Orion. Relates his own work on the specula of telescopes. Intends to submit a paper on this to the R.A.S.
Thanks WCW for his article ["Microscopical objects found in mud of Levant", Mem. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Manchester 2d ser. 8 (1848):1–128]. Comments on it; offers to send Ascension Island specimens. Urges WCW to re-examine coal-beds for Infusoria to determine whether intervening beds were deposited by sea-, brackish, or fresh water.
JH must write official letter to Admiralty stating completion of [Cape of Good Hope] telescope and explaining reason for additional £170.
Regarding spots on the sun and [T. J.?] Hussey and [A.?] Dawson's observations.
JH comments on quality of Georg Merz object glasses.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Owning no instruments, EH appreciated JH's chapter on 'naked eye' astronomy. Notes and drawings of variable stars.
Agrees that some of JH's suggestions about meteor showers were probably unnecessary [see GA's 1848-1-29].