Enclosing details of the proposed testimonial for meritorious work in astronomy. Would like confirmation of the date of birth of JH's aunt.
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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.
Enclosing details of the proposed testimonial for meritorious work in astronomy. Would like confirmation of the date of birth of JH's aunt.
The memoir of JH's aunt is forthcoming. Comments on old and new style in calendars.
Encloses article for JH to work on. Can he inform him of Encke's Christian names?
Sending something from Airy relating to the testimonial. Anything he does not use can be returned to Somerset House for AD.
Requesting that JH would send notices to all the new honorary members. Eleven testimonials are ready for his signature; would he sign them when next in town. Where shall he send the Cape newspapers?
Agrees with his proposals. Will meet him at Barclay the printers or if unable to manage then, will forward the testimonials to Somerset House for his signature.
Thinks Herschel is getting on very well with his mathematics. Boys learn mathematics at a much earlier age now. Will have testimonials ready at Barclays if he will name the day. Will bring Cape newspapers to the Society.
Returns the papers of John Forbes (on mathematical subject) and comments on them. Suggests what the R.S.L. should do in such cases.
The tract JH means is by L. A. Sédillot on the history of astronomy of the Arabs. Comments on this. Possesses it but it is bound in with a lot of other papers so is too heavy to send. Would he give John Williams permission to open letters addressed to the President of the R.A.S.
Has been hunting JH's proposition through the books and finds that it has dropped out of use, though the older geometrical books include it.
Some comments about dates related to JH's aunt Caroline Herschel.
Some additional details about JH's aunt Caroline [see JH's 1848-1-27].
Needs clarification about John Lubbock's planetary theory; thanks for G. B. Airy's lunar reductions.
On the origin of the R.A.S.
Organizational matters related to R.A.S.; intrigued by AD's partial differential.
About authorship of an encyclopedia article, meeting arrangements, and the mathematical cleverness of his son William.
Arrangements for meeting with AD.
About a number of new associate members of the R.A.S.
Asks for reference to date of discovery of the moon's variation by Aboul Wefa.
Arrangements about meetings and signing of the R.A.S. testimonials.