Was very pleased with the specimen JH sent him; it is still in good condition. Has he read [John William] Draper's paper? Comments on some of the points. Outlines some of his own proposed experiments.
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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.
Was very pleased with the specimen JH sent him; it is still in good condition. Has he read [John William] Draper's paper? Comments on some of the points. Outlines some of his own proposed experiments.
Much indebted for his paper on the influence of the solar spectrum on vegetable colors. Has a series of experiments ready that he hopes will resolve some of his own doubts. Does not like the term J. W. Draper uses for the new rays.
Sends a few samples of plates made by the cyanotype process; they are poor because the sun has not been very strong of late. Comments on this process and wishes JH would make a few experiments with his more perfect apparatus. Inclined to agree with him about the mechanism of the eye.
Sending, care of Dr. Grant, the first part of a series of experiments on the magnetic influence of light, which appeared recently in the Calcutta Journal. Has been unable to obtain a characteristic specimen of Kankar in Bengal. Dr. Hugh Falconer is an expert on the Kankar in Bengal and he will try to obtain information from Falconer.
Papers arrived safely. Will report GD's opinion on these soon.
Sees too many difficulties in optics of JH's proposed telescope. Can build mechanical portion, but not by March as JH requires. Cannot give estimate, because design is too novel.
Will begin building components that JH identified as most immediately needed. Confirm scale of JH's drawings. Will send samples of prism glass for JH to inspect. Cannot yet estimate cost.
About chemical solutions used in photography, and problems produced by impurities in photographic paper.
Thanks JH for a specimen of 'mercury type,' which AS describes as he examined it under a microscope.
Thanks JH for the poem [JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk'] he sent. Requests a song sung by 'faery elves' in William Herschel's telescope.
Thanks JH for JH's translation of Friederich Schiller's poem 'The Walk.'
Discusses matter touching P.M. and Scientific Memoirs.
Asks for advice on a number of scientific papers.
Thanks for JH's translation of Frederick Schiller's poem. Hopes that they had a pleasant Christmas. Family news.
Thanks for his reductions of Schiller's observations. Many people believe the claims made in the 'Moon Hoax'. Is writing a book on the use of the globes.
Comments on JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's poem 'The Walk.' Invites the Herschels to Trinity Lodge, then under repair. Mentions James South's odd behavior.