Arranges a meeting with CW and Edward Sabine to prepare a report on magnetic proposals.
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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.
Arranges a meeting with CW and Edward Sabine to prepare a report on magnetic proposals.
Writes about arrangements for an R.S.L. council meeting.
Urges SC to arrange meeting of R.S.L. deputation with Lord Melbourne as quickly as possible to discuss funding for magnetic observatories.
Glad to see RM's geological labors on The Silurian System completed.
Writes in great haste, thanking RM on behalf of Lady Herschel for taking 'trouble,' especially for 'Literary Tributes' apparently sent for Lady H's album.
Sent to CH her diploma from the Royal Irish Academy on account of her election as an honorary member.
Despite respecting the distinguished company in the Geological Society, JH must refuse its presidency.
Has bought some horses, and needs the coachman to come to bring them home.
Informs CG of the awarding to CG of the Copley medal for CG's magnetic researches; hopes that the British government will support such magnetic researches around globe.
Asks WW, and through him George Peacock, to judge whether B.A.A.S. funds should provide some instruments for the Breslau Magnetic Observatory.
Apologizes for delay in responding to JT's wish to publish JH's portrait as the frontispiece of JT's Arcana of Science; adds that the only portrait of JH of which JH is aware is that at St. John's College, Cambridge.