Shares JB's experiences with visual abnormalities similar to those described in JH's 'Sensorial Vision' (1858). Encloses copy of related subject that JB found in Section 45 of John Locke's 'On the Conduct of the Understanding.'
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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.
Shares JB's experiences with visual abnormalities similar to those described in JH's 'Sensorial Vision' (1858). Encloses copy of related subject that JB found in Section 45 of John Locke's 'On the Conduct of the Understanding.'
Is obliged for his hints on saving heat in his ventilating apparatus. Comments on this and encloses leaflets on baths and wash-houses.
Is grateful for JH's remembrances and sympathy in his affliction [death of his sister]
The money presented by his son is to be used to enlarge the Infirmary.
Hopes that reports he has heard of his health are unfounded. The wing of the infirmary has been completed.
Is grateful for the copies of his essays, which he treasures. Hopes his anxiety for his son in India will be groundless.
Sending him local paper so that he can see how the Oxford news has been received. Corporation of Southampton has come into a legacy.
Is pleased to hear of his support for the Young Men's Association at Leeds. Is reading the new edition of JH's Outlines Astr.
Is grateful for the ? which made him laugh. Hopes that Lady Herschel will accept the enclosed.
Has been reading his work on volcanoes and earthquakes ['About Volcanoes and Earthquakes'] with interest. Regarding his own health.
The delay in thanking him for his gift of the Iliad has been occasioned by ill health.
Regarding poetry and JH's gift of some of his own.