Asks JH to consider revising report on a paper.
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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.
Asks JH to consider revising report on a paper.
Comments against the paper of Ernst Klinkerfüss about observations of dispersed star light [see JH's 1866-2-24].
Preparing for total eclipse of sun in 1868. Conferred with William Huggins about making spectroscopic analysis of red protuberances. Asks JH's opinion.
Will not apply to government for money to purchase telescope for observing [1868] eclipse. William Huggins believes that larger telescope is needed. Would JH's son [John] make these observations [for R.S.L.]?
Further comments on Ernst Klinkerfüss's paper, in response to JH's 1866-2-28.
Comments on a letter GS received from Ernst Klinkerfüss, which leaves GS convinced of the basic correctness of the views of GS and JH.
Asks JH's opinion on matter of purchase of expensive telescope for solar eclipse (1868) and other observations by William Huggins.
Sends list of tutors at Trinity College contemporary with William Whewell; comments on telescope needed for eclipse viewing.
About some instruments to be taken to India by JH's son John.
Comments on communications to R.S.L. by JH's son John in India.
Questions about JH's report on a paper; is sending on copies of JH's son John's papers.
Organizational matters regarding paper reports; comments on light from sun's corona [see JH's 1868-11-8].
Asks JH to look at a paper on musical scales; comments on a paper by A. Prazmosky on polarization of light from the solar corona.
Information about the distribution of papers.
Extended comments on John Herschel's [JH's son] observations of the spectrum of the solar corona.
Still worried about the meaning of some terms in John Herschel's [JH's son] paper [see GS's 1869-7-20].
Clarifications of some confusion in the proof copy of a paper by John Herschel [JH's son].
A letter from the Secretary of R. S. L. asking JH to review several papers. [Appended is a copy of JH's review in draft form.]
Will present to R.S.L. Council JH's application for money for reducing JH's catalogue of nebulae.
R.S.L. Council voted £20 for cost of reducing JH's catalogue of nebulae.