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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.
Thanks for the pamphlet on the Figure of the Earth, but regrets he cannot agree with its conclusions. Points out some of the more serious errors.
Does not agree with the conclusion of JG's pamphlet, nor does he think an expedition necessary. Suggests termination of correspondence.
Has not advertised Herschel House as yet and does not know whether to let or sell it, but would be prepared to discuss the matter with principals only.
Has received her version of the first canto of Dante's Inferno. Did she know it has already been done in an almost perfect way by Mr. Ford, prebend of Exeter? Comments on various points of her translation.
Thanks for JG's Correlation of Physical Forces; JH is still uncertain about the nature of heat.
Has received his book on symbolism from the publishers. Comments on some of its views. Feels he has been treated a little harshly.
Thanks for his books. Encloses one of his own pamphlets on Atoms, which will show his personal view of mind versus matter. Comments on some of Haig's terminology.
About the solution of algebraic equations and JH's previous work on this topic.
Comments on analytic symbolism in mathematics.
Expresses thanks for RH, in a paper on George Boole in the British Quarterly Review, giving JH credit for having published 'my introduction of the mode of separation of the symbol of differentiation from the differentiated function and executing on it operations analogous to those of common algebra.'
Reluctantly agrees to review a manuscript for a Mr. Adams.
About the naming of asteroids.
Suggests the name 'Clio' for asteroid No. 59. Gives a list of proposed names for asteroids.
Takes it that the expense of the Sinai Expedition so far carried out has been met from the funds. Sees no objections to a continuation of the expedition.
Found some old packets of seeds of Protea yesterday and wonders if he would like them to be sown to see if they would germinate. Comments on some of the plants in his garden. Tried some Peruvian potatoes.
Response to some papers sent to R.A.S.
On the observation of sun spots.
More on the construction of a good optical eyepiece for solar observations [see FH's 1864-4-27].
Would like FH to study a phenomenon that JH has noticed on the sun's disk and that has no connections with sun-spots.
Proposes to travel to visit FH next day to observe the sun with him.