Asks WS to take the chair at the next meeting of the R.A.S [probably concerning the Adams-Leverrier dispute].
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Asks WS to take the chair at the next meeting of the R.A.S [probably concerning the Adams-Leverrier dispute].
Memorial presented by members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and other scientific societies, submitting that natural history is inadequately provided for by the present constitution of the Board of Trustees of the British Museum.
Notes that actinometer observations prove faulty due to problem with instruments. Asks that WS notify Indian observatories to join others in terminating such observations until JH finds method of getting around problem.
Thanks for sending his book on the Correspondence of James Watt. Hopes to give it the attention it deserves, but meanwhile comments on the water controversy of Henry Cavendish, Joseph Priestley, and James Watt.
Believes he has succeeded in integrating elliptic and hyperbolic functions in finite terms, and sends a paper in which this is discussed.
George III defrayed all costs (£4000) for William Herschel's 40-feet reflecting telescope. JH began dismantling it in Dec. 1839. Lenses and equipment are in storage. Tube's internal structure of corrugated iron and framework's diagonal bracing were originated by WH.
Thanks for JDH’s notes on species sketch. Proposes to drive to Kew to discuss them with him.
Proposal of giving medals to both J. C. Adams and U. J. J. Leverrier by William Whewell turned down by R.A.S.
Sends a work for JH; would he also present the other copy to the R.S.L.
Sending treatises on radiant heat for the R.S.L. and JH.
Honoured by GL’s review of Volcanic islands.
Sends copy [of South America].
Sends copy of South America.
Will consult BS’s article in the Bulletin.
Recommends article by Daniel Sharpe ["On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 74–105].
Cites his description of thin laminae in volcanic rocks in Volcanic islands. Suggests similar process may have affected metamorphic schists.
Thanks him for offer of his book [Lehrbuch der physikalischen Geographie und Geologie (1844–7)]. Since he reads German poorly, BS should send book only if short and inexpensive.
No summary available.
Health permitting, proposes to visit Kew on Friday.
Thanks for AD's paper on probability of arguments and on the syllogism.
Thanks JM for a copy of the Correspondence of the Late J. Watt. In commenting on it, JH discusses at some length the doctrine of phlogiston as it relates to the discovery of the composition of water.
Health bad, cannot get to Kew.
Will send Nulliporae to [L. A.?] Reeve.
Introducing his nephew, Emile Gautier, Doctor of Mathematics. Sends a memoir of J. H. Maedler.
Would be pleased to accommodate JH if he is attending the B.A.A.S. meeting.
Regarding pamphlets concerning F. W. Bessel. Altitude instrument finished.