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numbers.
"Around this duration you/he/she was contemplated for adding to the Real observatory
of Greenwich two assistants of superior education. If this
scheme was entertained by the admiralty, the Board of Longitude or
the Real Society, I don't know. Somehow (I think through Mr
Peacock) a communication from Mr Herschel was brought me, while informing me
of this, and suggesting that I should be an excellent person for the
principal place. I went to London Saturday to get information,,
Feb. 7, sleeping to South of Mr, to be present to one of Mr. Humphrey
The soirees in the evening of Saturday of Davy (they was contained then every Saturday),
and to investigate of Lord H. Davy and the Dr Young. When I found that
succession to the place of Astronomer Royal was not considered as
separately a consequence of him, I picked freshly it up, and he/she returned the
next night. The whole proposal came to nothing.
"To this point I was busy on differential equations, mountain
problem of barometer and the determination of the height of the Gogmagogs and
many other points, investigations connected with Laplace
calculation, spherical aberration in different airplanes the geology
(especially respect to Derbyshire that I proposed to visit), and a lot
of the optics. I wrote a bill of my Paper on the figure of Saturn, and on
You damage. 15, 1824 were read to the Philosophical Society under the
title of 'On the figure supposed by a homogeneous and fluid mass which
particles act above from their mutual attraction, and from small
extraneous strengths', and it is printed in their Monographs. I also wrote a
bill of my Paper on Achromatic Eye-pieces, and in May 17, 1824, it
the Philosophical Society is read to under the title of 'On the
Principles and Construction of the Achromatic Eye-pieces of
Telescopes, and on the Achromatism of Microscopes', also included the
effects to separate the lenses of the object-glass. It is printed in
their Monographs.
"Among the miscellaneous matters I find that on you Damage. 22 of this year me
started to do extracted by the books of the I regularly Hover Society a,