[Form Letter] GA's address, as Astronomer Royal, to Board of Visitors. Progress report on F. G. W. Struve's proposal for joint French-English-Belgian triangulation survey.
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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.
[Form Letter] GA's address, as Astronomer Royal, to Board of Visitors. Progress report on F. G. W. Struve's proposal for joint French-English-Belgian triangulation survey.
Urges JH to attend the next meeting of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory, especially as GA believes some of the members of the Board do not understand the scientific problem [?].
Circular letter advising of the availability of back copies of various Royal Observatory printed observations.
Asks for details about a strange drawing of Jupiter JH had seen at the Royal Observatory some months earlier, and offers some comments about Warren de La Rue's eclipse photographs.
Comments on Jupiter's appearance and on the eclipse photographs [see JH's 1860-8-23].
A note with a copy of JH's article on telescopes for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, together with some papers to be forwarded to James Glaisher.
Has tried a number of different fractional projections, some more interesting than others [see GA's 1860-12-7].
Offers some possible explanation for what the unnamed observer saw [see GA's 1860-3-1].
Passes on information on stars received from a Bengal pilot.
Regarding the printing of JH's British Metrical scale. Comparison between the chimes of Big Ben and those of St. Mary's, Cambridge.
Further details on the chimes of Big Ben.
Thanking him for his paper on telescopes. Observations of JH's semicircular map of the world.
Is arguing for the development of a British metrical system based on the length of the polar axis of the earth.