Suggests some means of improving a paper submitted by JH; more on standard measures of length [see RS's 1849-3-4], and other R.A.S. business.
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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.
Suggests some means of improving a paper submitted by JH; more on standard measures of length [see RS's 1849-3-4], and other R.A.S. business.
Note to present JH with a copy of AS's latest work.
Must consider and enquire before replying to JH's letter of yesterday. Sends volumes of the 'tables of revenue' for 1846 and 1847 to JH, plus a supplement relating to foreign countries. If this is not enough, let GP know.
Returns the proofs of [W. J.] Hamilton's paper, and hopes to send his contribution to the Admiralty Manual soon.
Thanks JH for subscription to the Astronomical Club. Discusses JH's objection to use of symbols in works on navigation. Notes that symbols are becoming more common. Requests advice.
Appreciates JH's praise of his meteorological work. Describes curious waterspouts in the sea and their boiling appearance.
Discusses B.A.A.S. resolution regarding the Cape observatory. Wants accurate drawings of nebulae to attempt to ascertain change. Wants JH to petition government to get reflector at Cape.
Did not wish JH to join application to government [see TR's 1849-10-21 & JH's 1849-10-27]. Committee hoped JH would help carry plan out if funding were secured. Doubts private funding will be given.
Grateful for JH's help in making a successful claim upon Her Majesty's Government.
Will gather information JH requested. It may be difficult to change the Indian appointment to Bengal of JH's son [William].
Discusses letter to [G. B.] Airy and JH's response to it. Discusses instruments at Toronto Observatory. Describes 18 November 1841 magnetic disturbances. Working on Atlantic declination maps.
Edward Sabine will recover. Please tell JH how grateful ES is for JH's positive remarks regarding his report. Discusses several scientific matters. Contains message from ES for JH on instrumentation at Kew Observatory.
Alexander von Humboldt reports reading that Lord Rosse's telescope has resolved the nebula of Orion. Humboldt requests JH's view on the matter. Describes new government.
Relays debate about the use of names of Roman gods for 'planets.' [Annibale] de Gasparis proposes to name his discovery in Italian, 'Igia,' rather than the Roman Hygia [Hygeia]. Which version will JH adopt?
Sends account of rainbow-like atmospheric phenomena; asks JH for an explanation. Remarks on American empirical discoveries. Too many hypotheses being put forward, including [Daniel] Kirkwood's. Comments on [B. A.] Gould and [Stephen] Alexander. Americans think they are absolute judges in scientific matters. Astronomische Nachrichten of 3 November contains improved method for computing planetary orbits.
Thanks JH for explanation of phenomena [see HS's 1849-12-4]. B. A. Gould [?] has begun to publish American version of Astronomische Nachrichten, but without strong financial backing.
Is passing on a request for a copy of JH's Cape Results from C. L. Littrow of Vienna.
Describes usual method for interpolation of altitudes at sea. JH's graphic method probably would be practicable.
Asks JH's opinion on a passage from [John] Williams's Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Seas regarding unusual tides in Tahiti and Society Islands.
About adjudication of R.S.L. medals.