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Manchester - Invites Whewell to make a donation for a monument honouring John Dalton.

A proposal to publish by subscription a line engraving by James Stephenson from his original drawing.

Manchester -- A letter of introduction for Mrs Lee, who wrote the Memoirs of Baron Cuvier (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1833), who was well acquainted with Baron Cuvier, from whom Dalton received many favours when in Paris in 1822 and since.

Salford, Manchester - Encloses his paper for a final reading before it is printed. The paper is a combination of the one he read at the BAAS meeting at Cambridge [see EH to WW, 28 Feb. 1835] and later at Dublin on the subject of vertical impacts. If Whewell has no comments to make he would be grateful if he sent the proof sheet to Mr Taylor at Red Lion Court off Fleet Street. Hodgkinson meets 'with great opposition from Dr Dalton [John Dalton] in these matters because I do not use Bernoulli's definition of force (considered as the square of the velocity) and reject the Newtonian as erroneous'. For Dalton to consider force as simply the velocity has introduced numerous errors. What does Whewell think?