About some aspects of the magnetic survey, and who shall pay for it.
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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.
About some aspects of the magnetic survey, and who shall pay for it.
About arrangements to visit JH at Collingwood.
Advises that JH has been elected President of the B.A.A.S. for its meeting at Cambridge in 1845; also some comments on the magnetic survey.
Several items of R.S.L. business.
Provides detailed information about JH's responsibilities as President of the B.A.A.S.
Further arrangements about the B.A.A.S. meeting [see GP's 1845-5-10].
Still more about B.A.A.S. meeting arrangements, especially about the magnetic survey {see GP's 1845-5-23].
Brief note alerting JH to the presence of a foreign visitor.
GP accepts a position which JH offers him.
A resolution passed by members of the B.A.A.S. meeting at Oxford urges the publication of William Herschel's papers in one volume.
Agrees to host congress at Cambridge to assess data from [magnetic and meteorological] observations. Suggests adding D. F. J. Arago to list. Will include this in GP's address to B.A.A.S at York. [JH annotation: List of five members.]
GP prefers to meet on Saturday at Somerset House, rather than on Friday as JH proposed.
GP's views on continuation of magnetic observatories in colonies.
Will soon marry [Frances] Selwyn, sister of Bishop of New Zealand. Favorable comments on [Cape Results].