Has just received invitation. Regrets delaying JH's dinner. AQ is in the countryside. Asks to be allowed to visit toward the end of the dinner.
Has just received invitation. Regrets delaying JH's dinner. AQ is in the countryside. Asks to be allowed to visit toward the end of the dinner.
Regrets tremendously not being home when JH visited. Wishes to present himself at JH's hotel this evening. Would like to spend tomorrow together. Will discuss translation of Light.
Is pleased to write letter to [G. P.] Dandelin for JH. JH should visit Mr. Van Rees at Liege, for which AQ will also write a letter of introduction. Nevertheless AQ believes JH's name suffices as introduction. If JH visits Namur, he should see the governor of the province, Mr. D'Omolius[?].
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Proposes to send telescope to JH to have a new lens made. Desires JH's opinion of the telescope's utility. Is hesitant to join Astronomical Society.
Thinks his telescope was not well executed. Would be pleased if James South tried another. Advises how to improve performance of telescope.
Anxious to hear the opinion of his telescope. Notices best resolution with a 3.5-inch aperture. Also, distinctness is best with correcting lenses in certain diametric position.
Discusses further adjustments for the telescope. If JH returns to England soon, AR will come to Slough with the telescope.
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Greetings to Mr. and Mrs. Herschel.
Has requested his friend Thomas Henderson of Edinburgh University to call on JH. Would be pleased if JH can help him in any way.
Baxter sends a copy of part two of Stirpes Cryptogamae Oxoniensis and also sends a prospectus for forthcoming work by Gerard Edwards Smith on the botany of southern Kent.
Makes arrangements to donate herbarium to the Cambridge Philosophical Society. The herbarium was purchased from Andrew Mathews, a gardener for the Horticultural Society of London, prior to him being sent to South America to collect plants.
Sends JSH a list of flora from the Charnwood Forest and the area of Glenfield and Grooby Pool in north-west Leicestershire, together with a geological description. He offers to send specimens of these plants if required and asks JSH for Cambridgeshire specimens.