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41 Chalcot Villas, Adelaide Road NW - Has two points to make: 1: the drinking song is Ptolemaic ['this bottle's the sun of our table, how the bottle revolves round the table"] and recalls the Duke of Sussex singing it at a dinner party in 1826. 2: Barrow's method is pretty but does not show the full merit of Peter Metius' [Adriaan Anthonisz'] result. Explains why he thinks the phrasing of 1620 indicates that he did not publish and will give him the reference from his son Adrian Metius' book; will look further at Barrow: "I am not sure that Barrow is not reasoning in, as well as on, a circle".

Letter of 9 Aug. 1838 is a circular.

The Rectory, Woodstock - Will WW become a member of a memorial committee to help secure a suitable 'Tribute of Respect to record the tone of learning, and the high and amicable qualities of which his late Royal Highness, the former president of the Royal Society, was so pre-eminently distinguished'.