Copies of report are available if JH's friends on Board [of Visitors] want to see it. R.S.L. selected GA's polarity paper for Bakerian Lectures. Thanks for JH's influence.
Copies of report are available if JH's friends on Board [of Visitors] want to see it. R.S.L. selected GA's polarity paper for Bakerian Lectures. Thanks for JH's influence.
Requests the views of JH, and all other Standards Commission members, on the various subjects before the Commission; GA will compile these and circulate them to all Commission members to expedite discussions at future meetings.
Asks for JH's help in trying to determine the likely cost of making magnetic observations at Greenwich.
The Royal Observatory wants to make magnetic observations at Greenwich, and it appears will need to make some building alterations. Estimates are required immediately by the Admiralty/Treasury, and GA seeks JH's assistance.
Thanks JH for his help [see JH's 1840-8-14], and tells JH about a visit to Greenwich by Charles Wheatstone.
Regarding equipment at Royal Observatory. Comparison of planets.
Asks JH for comments on GA's proposals for the Standards Commission [see JH's 1840-7-29]; GA comments on some time spent recently in Glasgow and surrounding regions.
Further observations on David Brewster's experiments. On heliometers. Observations on suggestions for Standards.
On the possibility of obtaining a heliometer from Munich.
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.
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].
Sending draft of report and appendix. Specimen of a gauging scale.
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].
A summons to a meeting of the Standards Commission, together with some proposals for amending the report.