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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.
John Lubbock shall have JH's vote. Comments on the duties of an M.P. Cannot promise to canvas but will speak to anyone with influence he meets.
Has been kept informed of the illness of Sir John William Lubbock by JH's daughter [Matilda] Rose. Hears things are now more serious and proposes to bring Rose home to Collingwood.
Cannot make up his mind to support either one or other of the two great political divisions at the moment.
Has got his paper on shooting stars. Comments on JL's theories of meteors. Pleased to hear a favorable account of Montague Lubbock.
Does not possess the Transactions of the Astronomical Society, which contains JL's paper. Had to limit the scope of his article so could not deal with the point mentioned in JL's letter. Comments on P. S. Laplace's formula.
About the barometric formula for the measurement of heights.
Introducing his eldest son and his son's newly married wife.
Sending a lump of a substance quarried near Edenderry; has found some very similar in a quarry of his own. Can send some more specimens. Congratulations on his Baronetcy. Has been prostrated with bronchitis.
Remains unconvinced by RF's ideas on gravitating lunisolar action on the atmosphere.
Has received the notice of the meeting, but regrets his ill health will prevent his attendance at the meeting.
Sympathizes with Dr. C. T. Beke but regrets he is unable to contribute towards his assistance.
Returns a paper of Mr. Stobart, which deals with astronomical knowledge of the early Egyptians.
Comments on WL's 4-foot equatorial telescope of which WL sent JH a lithograph [see WL's 1860-2-8].
Comments on WL's nebulae diagrams and asks for more.
As JH is preparing a catalogue of all known nebulae, would WL please provide a complete listing of all he has seen.
Writes to ask EL a series of questions about probabilities related to shooting at targets, with variations in the size and shape of the targets.
Comments on the several drawings of the same nebulae; thanks WL for the invitation to Malta but JH is too ill to accept.
In response to FK's 1866-4-17, JH says that he knows nothing about screw propulsion in ships and so cannot comment on FK's paper.
Comments on the relationship between the plane of the earth's orbit and the obliquity of the ecliptic.
JH responds to UL's concern about the Isaac Newton-Blaise Pascal forgeries [see UL's 1869-10-4].