Letter from J H [John Herschel], Bangalore [Bengaluru], to 'Dear Pater' [Sir John Frederick William Herschel] His certificate has come back in time for him to return it before leaving Bangalore. The signatures are there including an extra, Mr [Thomas] Oldham's. [James Francis] Tennant would also have obtained Archdeacon [John Henry] Pratt's signature, but he was travelling. Sir H [Henry] James and Captain R [Alexander Ross] Clarke have been suggested. John was sorry to read Professor [William Allen] Miller's obituary; he was kind when John was preparing for the eclipse. He has written to Mr [William] Huggins to say that he has no immediate use for the equatorial, having another first-class instrument to occupy him. He does not have Alick's [Alexander Stewart Herschel's] energy for work. Huggins stated that he would mention the matter in Council [of the Royal Society]. He sends the draft of a letter comparing Colonel [William] Lambton's latitudes with his own, where the agreement is 'astonishing close'. Colonel [James Thomas] Walker will publish something on the matter before long. John is not going into five or six months of camp light-heartedly; Mary [Mary Cornwallis Herschel] will go to Kishnagar for some of that time. 5 November 1870