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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.
Thanks for resolutions regarding distribution of government aid, particularly JH's dwelling on good example of B.A.A.S. Discusses proceedings of distribution committee meeting. [Marked 'Private'.]
Thanks HS for response to and explains further JH's letter to John Tyndall regarding explanation of origin of geological slaty cleavage.
Agrees with and asks permission to publish JH's letter in the Philosophical Magazine. Is going to Switzerland and Tyrol, where hopes to see phenomenon of glacial descent [see JH's 1856-7-31].
Sends photograph of drawing of lunar crater Copernicus made with reflector at Rome, to aid B.A.A.S.'s effort in comparing moon's surface with that of earth.
Success of C. P. Smyth's Teneriffe expedition pleases JH; anxious for declination of nebulae taken from high altitudes. Upset over G. J. Stoney's reproduction of JH's collimating telescope without giving him credit.
Discusses observations of color and light.
Sends regrets over TM's son not passing exam. Tries unsuccessfully to arrange a second testing. Fears war in Europe.
Inquires after JH's interest on changing the spelling of the English language to a phonetic system.
Visited Liverpool for inspection of School Frigate. Observed Triton. C. P. Smyth will install large telescope at Alta Vista; WS sends excerpt from son's letter. C. P. Smyth also works on spectral line observations.
Sends copy of Admiralty Manual, which includes JH article on meteorology. Asks TM what to do with Bokkeveld meteorite specimen still in his possession.
Has no actinometers available [see GA's 1856-4-23], but tells GA where he can get one; rhapsodizes about the beauty of nature around him, and the silliness of a person.
Some more information on the use of the actinometer [see JH's 1856-4-24 & GA's 1856-6-3]; some news of JH's wife, Margaret.
Requesting advice on his reflex zenith tube. Regarding progress on 'Standards.'
Wants one or more of JH's actinometers. Notes his suggestion about the zenith tube.
Relating his experiments with the zenith tube.
Has procured an actinometer and would like details of the scale.
Relating his experiences on his recent tours abroad.
Regarding experiments on the Mohamet's coffin theory. His son Wilfrid has won a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge.
[Reply to GA's [1856-4-6 or earlier] on Mohamet's coffin theory.] Congratulations on GA's son winning a scholarship. JH's health is better, but he cannot walk yet.
Formal note of thanks for TA's paper on ozone.