Of Cambridge University news, and observatory plans.
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Of Cambridge University news, and observatory plans.
Would like a few of his poems so that she can publish them in an anthology.
Regarding a suitable date for the next meeting of Council. Construction of tables. Regulations regarding auditors.
About their relationship.
Announcing his election to the Astronomical Society. Would welcome any communications. Sends reports to M. A. Pictet and thanks for his communications on barometric height. Would be very pleased to be of assistance at any time.
Board of Longitude reluctant to pay for new building at James South's unless South and JH agree to place their observations at Board's disposal.
Has got [Karl/Peter?] Bauer's measurements, so if he calls Monday or Tuesday he can show them to him.
Reasons why JH was unable to see the Atlas when he called.
Regarding H. C. Schumacher's Nachrichten. Astronomical observations. Regarding foreign correspondents for the Astronomical Society.
Returns papers, including: manuscript of [Pehr] Löfling's [(1729-1756), Swedish botanist] with note by [Daniel] Scheidenburg [(b 1720), Swedish clergyman]. Encloses list of her arrangement of [Carl Peter] Thunberg's letters; he has a "cramped & puzzling" hand
At the President's suggestion he is confining his Croonian lecture to the anatomical description of the eye; therefore has not sent the experiments.
Visit from Sir David Smith and wife. Family health. Mr. Davenport is ignoring all letters. Extend invitation to Slough to Mrs. Wrangham and Mrs. Beckwith.
Regarding W. T. Brande's attack on Sir Joseph Banks, and its relation to the Council of the Astronomical Society.
Asks for money pledged for publication of Memoirs of the Analytical Society, which has made no profit. Will be attending testimonial at Cambridge for JW [who has resigned position there].
Thanks for his election to the Astronomical Society. Gives details of his recent activities and those of M. A. Pictet.
Is grateful for the news of his election to the Astronomical Society.
Recollections of his visit to Smith at Norwich and [Thomas William Coke at] Holkham, Norfolk. Gratified by the attentions he received from all on his travels, especially those of Smith's aquaintances "though in humbler stations of life, are the real ornaments of society". John Corrie obliged to leave Cambridge on account of a glandular illness but has now recovered and returned to Cambridge.
Thanks for barrel of oysters. Steadily working on his "English Flora" and hopes to get it to the press in May; expects it to be "quite an original Flora" as he has been revising the whole subject and correcting mistakes made by previous writers and compilers. Asks Goodenough's advice regarding accenting of names and whether to give derivation of generic names. The whole object of the book is "botanical determination". Asks Goodenough's opinion of the "green old age" of [Thomas William] Coke [on 26 February 1822 Coke married for the second time Lady Anne Amelia Keppel (1803-1844), fifty years his junior]. Smith hopes he has done some good with the grasses and triandria monogynia, with which [Robert] Brown is "very great" but refines too much.
No summary available.
Regarding the plan of the tables for the places of the principal stars. Will be unable to attend the meeting of council on Friday. Will send memorandum for discussion.