“On June 26th I started with my wife for the Highlands of Scotland.  After a short stay at Edensor, we went by Carlisle to Glasgow, and through the Lake District to Inverness.  Thence by Auchnanault to Balmacarra, where we were received by Mr Lillingstone.  After an expedition in Skye, we returned to Balmacarra, and passed on to Invermoriston, where we were received by Grant of Glenmoriston.  We then went to Fort William and Oban, and crossed over to Mull, where we were received by Maclean of Loch Buy.  We returned to Oban and on to Edinburgh, where we made a short stay.  Then to Melrose, where we were received by Sir D. Brewster, and by Edensor to Cambridge, where we arrived on Sept. 17th.

“I received (at Edinburgh I believe) a letter from Arago, writing for the plans of our observing-room shutters.—­Mr Vernon Harcourt wrote deprecating the tone of my Report on Astronomy as related to English Astronomers, but I refused to alter a word.—­Sheepshanks wrote in September in great anxiety about the Cambridge Circle, for which he thought the pier ought to be raised:  I would have no such thing, and arranged it much more conveniently by means of a pit.  On Oct. 9th Simms says that he will come with the circle immediately, and Jones on Sept. 29th says that he will make some alteration in the equatoreal:  thus there was at last a prospect of furnishing the Observatory properly.—­On Oct. 9th, I have Encke’s thanks for the translation of the Comet Paper.—­One of the desiderata which I had pointed out in my Report on Astronomy was the determination of the mass of Jupiter by elongations of the 4th satellite:  and as the Equatoreal of the Cambridge Observatory was on the point of coming into use, I determined to employ it for this purpose.  It was necessary for the reduction of the observations that I should prepare Tables of the motion of Jupiter’s 4th Satellite in a form applicable to computations of differences of right-ascension.  The date of my Tables is Oct. 3rd, 1832.—­In October the Observatory Syndicate made their Report:  quite satisfactory.

“On Oct. 20th Sheepshanks wrote asking my assistance in the Penny Cyclopaedia:  I did afterwards write ‘Gravitation’ and ‘Greenwich.’  —­Capt.  Beaufort wrote in November to ask my opinion on the Preface to an edition of Groombridge’s Catalogue which had been prepared by H. Taylor:  Sheepshanks also wrote; he had objected to it.  This was the beginning of an affair which afterwards gave me great labour.—­Vernon Harcourt writes, much offended at some terms which I had used in reference to an office in the British Association.

“The Equatoreal mounting which Troughton and Simms had been preparing for Sir James South’s large telescope had not entirely succeeded.  I have various letters at this time from Sheepshanks and Simms, relating to the disposition which Sir James South shewed to resist every claim till compelled by law to pay it.—­A general election of Members of Parliament was now coming on:  Mr Lubbock was candidate for the University.  On Nov. 27th I had a letter from Sedgwick requesting me to write a letter in the newspapers in favour of Lubbock; which I did.  On Dec. 7th I have notice of the County voting at Newmarket on Dec. 18th and 19th:  I walked there to vote for Townley; he lost the election by two or three votes in several thousands.