Hudson has printed JH's observations on the temperature of the oceans in the Athenaeum. Sends a chart of the east coast of China. Edward Troughton died last Friday.
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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.
Hudson has printed JH's observations on the temperature of the oceans in the Athenaeum. Sends a chart of the east coast of China. Edward Troughton died last Friday.
Sends a few lines via Capt. Basil Hall. Remembers with pleasure JH's visit to Gotha. His visit to the Cape inspires interest. C. F. Gauss is occupied with magnetic observations. Lists some problems he would like resolved if JH has time while at the Cape. Capt. J. C. Ross has found the magnetic pole.
Sends his two mountain barometers; comments on them. Method of interpolating the clock errors graphically answers well.
Has received some papers and newspapers. Four parcels are on their way to JH via H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Encloses a letter from William Wallace regarding the Edinburgh Observatory.
Captain John Stevens was at the Observatory yesterday and wishes to superintend the tidal observations himself. TM intends to make the observations personally, or with the assistance of T. W. Bowler. The lunar eclipse was uninteresting. Has had copies of G. B. Airy's papers; they are excellent.
Has received the box from H.M.S. Rattlesnake and lists the parcels for JH. T. W. Bowler commenced the tidal observations yesterday. Outlines the method used. Was beset by dogs on the way home. Expects to hear from the first ship of an Assistant.
Encloses a copy of the hourly observations. Comments on the tides of Table Bay.
Sent the barometric readings with Mr. Curnan's paper. Comments on the tidal observations. Send the tide book. William Lamb (2nd Viscount Melbourne) is reinstated.
Responds to HP's generous offer [see HP's 1835-1-21] by saying JH does not need the money, and then suggests that HP might want to use it to support the publication of JH's results from his stay at the Cape.
JH is very disturbed by the fighting between the South African military and the Kaffirs.
Tends to agree with most of what JH says [see JH's 1835-6-2].
Gives incomplete report on observations of nebulae and double stars and theories on the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds based thereupon. Thanks WH for his explanation of WH's new dynamical method, but JH admits that he understands only its 'general scope.'
Made a 'mess' of the tidal observation and meteorological observations that he took earlier in the week.
William Whewell asked JH to compare their June tidal observations with those of the British Admiralty; JH will urge John Deas Thompson to be extra precise in his findings.
Attempting to correct the faulty tidal and meteorological observations that JH made earlier in the week.
Has been appointed to Government House. Family news.
Urges JH to observe Ceres. Describes TM's observations of it.
Announcing that JH and James South have been awarded the J. J. Lalande prize for their Double and Triple Stars.
Thanks for JH's observations and notes on nebulae. Hopes JH will come to Etna to see the changes in the crater.