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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.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results, donated to university library. David Brewster is head of St. Andrews College, and Daniel Dewar is head of Marischal College in Aberdeen. Hopes observatory will be complete when B.A.A.S. meets again in Glasgow.
Gratitude for gift of JH's Cape Results. Just returned from geological tour of highlands with [Bernhard] Studer from Bern [Switzerland]. Hopes to purchase Madame Witte's 'model of the Moon...for Edinburgh,' if it has not been bought in London. Observed Neptune at Oxford in company with U. J. J. Leverrier, J. C. Adams, and Wilhelm Struve.
Gratitude for gift of JH's Cape Results, not yet received. Send copy for [St. Andrews] University through Smith, Elder & Co., booksellers to the university. Concurs with JH on names for asteroids.
Legation does not ordinarily forward parcels to America, but JH's unique reputation leads GB to set a precedent. Instructions for packaging copies [of JH's Cape Results]. S. C. Walker is now at National Observatory in Washington, D.C.
Will soon marry [Frances] Selwyn, sister of Bishop of New Zealand. Favorable comments on [Cape Results].
Sends copy of Literary Gazette, containing notice of [JH's Cape Results], which WJ saw while visiting mutual friend J. C. Ross.
Asks help in forwarding copies of JH's Cape Results to U.S. List of 19 recipients and addresses. Asks GB's help in correcting errors before JH inscribes copies.
Comments on electrical equipment, and then refers to a variety of experiments, including shocking chickens awake that have been given ether, and the study of other electrical effects on gases and various liquid substances. Wonders about the use of ether/electric shock on humans in surgery. Congratulates JH on his Cape Results.
Presents a copy of JH's Cape Results for transmission to the observatory of the University of Tübingen.
Has been here some 10 days. Received a copy of JH's great work before leaving Scotland. Hopes of a review of it from George Peacock. Longmans is now arranging for the printing of the review.