Discusses origin and reactions of enclosed borate of lead. Postscripts on parallel strata in glass.
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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.
Discusses origin and reactions of enclosed borate of lead. Postscripts on parallel strata in glass.
Hopes to call on Thursday to discuss queries. Regarding recent astronomical experiments. Alterations to his twenty-foot telescope.
Regarding W. T. Brande's recent attack on the Astronomical Society. The Board of Longitude and its dealings with CB. Has met Henry Warburton recently.
Would CB breakfast with JH in order to meet members of the Correction Committee.
Please forward the address of H. Meikle, the computer.
No need for meeting of Correction Committee. Will be in town on Friday and hopes to meet him.
Is glad he is coming on Tuesday. Regarding the parcel of books from Vienna. Recent experiments with mercury.
Would like to visit this week. Has had an attack of rheumatic fever. Gives tables of orbit of a comet.
Regarding barometric observations.
Regarding their chances of obtaining a professorship at Cambridge.
Regarding refraction in crystals of apophyllite and quartz.
Though he could qualify, he would rather not try for the fellowship as he does not require it so much as some other persons may.
If FB will send him his paper on the eclipse, he will write his report. Regarding the publication of information received from various members. Duties of the Foreign Secretary.
Reports to HW, director of the observatory at Åbo, on observations, made by a variety of British astronomers, of the solar eclipse of 7 September 1820.
JB was elected associate of Astronomical Society. Asks that Society's annual prize be announced in Jahrbuch. Please insert 'Reclamation' of Francis Baily against Jabbo Oltmanns, relative to the eclipse of [Thales?], into next Ephemeris. Send copies of JB's Ephemeris for T. F. Colby and for Society.
Elected to membership in Astronomical Society. Subjects of annual prize. What is title of [C.] Brioschi's work?
Elected to membership in Astronomical Society. Thanks for GM's paper on eclipse.
HS was elected associate of Astronomical Society. This year's prize relates to theory of Saturn's satellites. Does HS plan to continue his table of apparent places of fixed stars?
Thanks for JN's 'Comets Elemts' and book on libration of moon. Please send JN's and J. L. Pons's first observations of comet. Invites JN to become associate of Astronomical Society.
Sends packet by Mr. Sellique containing report of Astronomical Society council and James South's corrections for June to Dec. 1821.