Still working on his Cape observations.
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The Sir John Herschel Collection
The preparation of the print Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds, Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998, viii + 828 pp) which was funded by the National Science Foundation, took ten years. It was accomplished by a team of seventeen professors, visiting scholars, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and staff working at the University of Notre Dame.
The first online version of Calendar was created in 2009 by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy, working at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium, and it is that data that has now been reformatted for incorporation into Ɛpsilon.
Further information about Herschel, his correspondence, and the editorial method is available online here: http://historydb.adlerplanetarium.org/herschel/?p=intro
No texts of Herschel’s letters are currently available through Ɛpsilon.
Still working on his Cape observations.
Government intention to reduce interest in savings banks may well affect JH's benefit society.
JH agrees to write a biographical sketch of Francis Baily, and hopes he can count on others for information.
Continues to work on biographical sketch of Francis Baily [see JH's 1844]; is working through a lot of material to do it.
On the subsuming of one scientific society by another; comments favorably on the Memoirs of the Cambridge University Philosophical Society and asks AD to help fill in JH's missing items.
On insurance tables for the benefit society; comments on AD's punning humor; JH has a chest cold.
Asks AD for the return of a paper JH had sent him.
Describes several photographic processes.
Would not like to become President and shirk the duties it involves, but if the R.A.S. cannot find someone else for the President then he will consent to let his name go forward. Has had a letter from W. H. Smyth on the same subject.
Some comments related to several astronomical publication problems; difficulties with naming the planet [Neptune].
Needs someone to translate German/Latin letters; about James Ross's polar expedition.
Thanks for the pains about a translator [see JH's 1847-1-8]; preparing biographical information about F. W. Bessel.
Sends what JH has written on F. W. Bessel.
About the dispute in the R.A.S. over awarding its medal(s) after discovery of Neptune.
Thanks for AD's paper on probability of arguments and on the syllogism.
Some comments about dates related to JH's aunt Caroline Herschel.
Some additional details about JH's aunt Caroline [see JH's 1848-1-27].
Needs clarification about John Lubbock's planetary theory; thanks for G. B. Airy's lunar reductions.
On the origin of the R.A.S.
Organizational matters related to R.A.S.; intrigued by AD's partial differential.