Item 82 - Letter from John William Lubbock

3 pp.

St James's Place - Thanks WW for the Calendar 'which exactly suits the purpose'. Not much is going on in Paris in the way of science. JWL gives the references to Cauchy's [Augustin Louis Cauchy] investigations connected to the theory of light. JWL is anxious to know what WW thinks of them and of Poisson's [Simeon D. Poisson] work on Capillary Attraction. Poisson told JWL that he thought it desirable that the moon should be treated like the planets. He also promised to examine Laplace's theory of the tides when he got JWL's tables: 'He seemed not to have thought much on the subject'.