Assures HB that transitional state of Assay department will soon be replaced by more permanent conditions.
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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.
Assures HB that transitional state of Assay department will soon be replaced by more permanent conditions.
Expresses deep appreciation for JG's loan of £500 to JH in difficult period. Sorry to hear of JG's suffering.
Salaries for Chief and Assistant Coiners, if these appointments are accepted by Edward Enfield and Robert Rintoul, respectively.
Potential problems with establishing refinery at Mint. Remodeling coining department. Approval by Treasury is required before proposed changes can be made. Asks for formal schedule of salaries for Mint employees.
Official notice that Mint contract with Moneyers, begun on 8 Nov. 1820, will terminate three months from today.
Legal notice of contract termination was served to company of Moneyers by Treasury solicitor on 13 Feb. Requests that reform of Mint Board, Mint office, Assay office, and Melting department be implemented before Mint staff assume duties of Moneyers in May. Encloses JH's plan for reorganizing departments. Offered positions in new structure to four Moneyers.
CB has 'decyphered' JH's puzzle. JH will not try to puzzle CB again.
Asks that Louisa Herschel be admitted to attend James Forbes's lectures.
Believes Edward Sabine's paper [R.S.P.T., 141 (1851), 123-] on periodicity of irregular magnetic disturbances important and certainly fit for publication.
About the family, and the need for wine from the cellar at Collingwood.
Seeks to coordinate WW's and Frederick Beechey's contributions to JH's Admiralty Manual.
Suggests how to reconcile WW's directions for tidal observation with those provided by Frederick Beechey for JH's Admiralty Manual. Thanks WW for and comments on his publication on political economy. Asks WW for views on decimal coinage.
Suggests revisions WW should make in his paper in the 2nd ed. of JH's Admiralty Manual so as to make it more consistent with Frederick Beechey's.
Asks approval for proposed changes in WW's revised contribution to JH's Admiralty Manual.