In case he has not received a letter from Berlin he sends details of the planet of U. J. J. Leverrier.
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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.
In case he has not received a letter from Berlin he sends details of the planet of U. J. J. Leverrier.
Hopes his friends will support the publication of his Barometrographia, which will be exhibited at the forthcoming B.A.A.S. meeting.
Regarding Benjamin Peirce's Elementary Treatise on Sound. Can lend him his own copy if JH has no copy.
Details of WL's observations of the seventh satellite of Saturn.
Would like to see C. F. Schönbein's invention tried but has not the means to afford any assistance at the moment. Understands that Edward Sabine is to introduce Schönbein to the Master General of Ordnance, so he will be in good hands.
Invites JH to join SB and Mr. Bold at 'our stable' tomorrow evening. Hopes [J. B. A.] Dumas will arrive from Paris then.
Sends results of RM's experiment on wave motion and earthquakes that RM will report at B.A.A.S. meeting in Southampton. Proposes new committee to implement RM's project.
[Marked 'Private.'] Encloses copy of TM's letter to the Times responding to news report of TM's altercation with JH and [T. R.] Robinson at B.A.A.S. meeting.
Challenges JH's letter in the Times today justifying JH's remarks at B.A.A.S. that Charles Wheatstone invented electric telegraph. Believes Wheatstone 'pilfered' invention from Mr. Baines.
WS has been quite ill for nearly a month. Sends the rest of the proof sheets of the catalogue [J. J. L.] Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française... or of N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere.]
Is about to leave for a journey through Belgium and Germany for the purpose of studying collegiate education on behalf of the Irish government. Would welcome any letters of introduction from JH.
Thanks JH for spotting error in a publication about the Edinburgh Observatory. Discusses 'the planet that is expected to be found beyond Uranus.' Asks JH to help him send astronomical news to Thomas Maclear.
Thanks JH for suggestions on his methods and on publishing his work.
Hopes that he will accept the accompanying pamphlet. Would like to make his acquaintance at some future date.
Thanks for his letter and friendly sentiments. Hopes to meet him at Southampton, though there are difficulties.
Is obliged for his hints on saving heat in his ventilating apparatus. Comments on this and encloses leaflets on baths and wash-houses.
Thanks to JH's assistance the telescope was delivered safely and unopened. It is beautifully made.
Sending the first volume of the Memoirs for Great Britain.
Asks for permission to look at R.S.L. letters from G. W. Leibniz to Henry Oldenburg; comments on dioptrics, and several astronomical topics.