Thanks for his letter about Thomas Maclear's boy. Thought he was in the care of his uncle. Will do whatever JH thinks is best.
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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 his letter about Thomas Maclear's boy. Thought he was in the care of his uncle. Will do whatever JH thinks is best.
Is grateful for his suggestion of Charles Pritchard as tutor for Thomas Maclear's sons; has written to him and to Mr. Knight, who is the present tutor. Knight will not be well pleased.
A. D. Bache reports that U.S. will establish magnetic observatory in Washington Territory. ES is preparing instructions for North American survey. Suggests change to JH's proposed article on terrestrial magnetism in Edinburgh Review.
[Government refusal to support five-year magnetic survey] has eliminated services of T. W. Blakiston and Thomas Hull as directors of two magnetic observatories. Instruments for Montreal observatory. Recent magnetic changes in North America. Success of elder B. C. Brodie's eye operation.
Comments on the publication of several volumes.
Describes, using a diagram, how the solar protuberances appeared to him as a color-blind person when he observed a solar eclipse.
Sends JH pamphlets on the representation of Oriental languages using the Roman alphabet. Outlines the advantages of this system.
Sends copy of paper for corrections.
Problems making actinometer observations during solar eclipse. Reports he did not observe the supposed planet Vulcan, but a fixed star. Sends micrometer observations. Describes shape of prominences.
Sends observations of eclipse; asks JH to check accuracy. Details observations with diagonal solar eyepiece. Describes solar corona and lists bright stars visible during totality.
His strength is improving. The Airys are off to Bilboa.
On behalf of GW's wife, thanks for JH's gift of table and bedcurtains.