Reading proofs of JH's Essays Q. E. R.; working on an article on meteorology.
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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.
Reading proofs of JH's Essays Q. E. R.; working on an article on meteorology.
On some odd results JH has arrived at about P. S. Laplace's barometric formula.
On magic squares.
Regarding the possibility of decimal coinage. Washes his hands of adjectives expressed in algebraic form. Has received good news from India.
Comments about JH's ancestor, Hercules, and replies to S. J. Loyd's (1st Baron Overstone) queries [see AD's 1857-10-9].
A proposition in perspective, and some nonsense.
Questions the exact beginning of the year 1857, and offers 'Old King Cole' in Latin.
Riddles, Latin nursery rhymes, and an eclipse description.
About insects JH's children caught and photographed; on a book on harmonics.
Errors to be corrected in a new edition of one of JH's writings, including spelling AD's name in the French way.
On the definition of an island, and an invitation to lecture about a comet.
About biographical information on George Peacock.
Still worrying about where does the day begin?
Is AD interested in the Lowndean Professorship at Cambridge?
Responds to AD's 1859-2-24 on forces, which degenerates into nonsense; comments on James Kemplay's writing on comets.
Comments on 'cause' and 'will.'
Comments on decimal coinage, the weather, and politics.
Congratulates AD on a successful move to a new house.
Comments on fluorescence and the contents of Francis Baily's desk drawer.
Tells AD how to deal with JH's letters to Francis Baily.