Meet CT and [James] Wilson at end of week. Hopes Lord Aberdeen [G. Hamilton-Gordon] will appoint Mr. Hill Jr. to vacant clerkship at Mint.
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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.
Meet CT and [James] Wilson at end of week. Hopes Lord Aberdeen [G. Hamilton-Gordon] will appoint Mr. Hill Jr. to vacant clerkship at Mint.
Sends draft of Treasury minutes for JH's inspection. E. W. Ward may immediately accept bid by Messrs. Taylor & Allen.
Read enclosed draft of Treasury minutes to see if it correctly states JH's recommendations regarding signing of Mint checks. Please return CT's draft of minutes on Sydney branch mint. Encloses amusing letter from [W. N.] Forbes.
Encloses copy of act prohibiting defacing of coins. Advises JH to make use of Treasury solicitor in all legal matters affecting Mint.
Reply to enclosed 'Reference,' then return it to 'Memorialists' by 20 Sept. Papers must be sent to [C. Rivers] Wilson at Boulogne.
Treasury commissioners seek JH's advice on feasibility of proposed observatory at Nottingham, to be funded by public money.
Approves JH's recommendation of John Goldsmith to position of supernumerary clerk in Mint office. Notify Lord Aberdeen [G. Hamilton-Gordon].
Confer with CT on rates of piecework for gold coinage before making decision. Did JH receive Treasury's official approval of remaining appointments to Sydney branch mint?