Asks RS to summarize T. G. Taylor's contributions to astronomy. Hopes to assist Taylor's widow and family.
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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 RS to summarize T. G. Taylor's contributions to astronomy. Hopes to assist Taylor's widow and family.
JH learned from daughters that JH and MBH must appear in drawing room for birthday celebration after girls return from Ball.
Family will arrive at Norwich on 16 May. Discusses Norfolk strata and Cray fossils.
Glad to lerarn of the Academy's interest in his Cape Observations. Regarding his father. Comments on the 'Equalizations of stars.' [Written on an experimental leaf photographic plate.]
Thanks for his offer of help in the trusteeship. Also for his pamphlet on income tax. Is about to become involved in Chancery proceedings. Comments on tax.
Health of family.
Sends small work on foundations of thought, with citation of JH's article in Quarterly [Review]. Note on geometry of planes.
Has he made a decision regarding writing a review for the second volume of Kosmos? Longmans is contemplating a second edition. George Peacock is much better.
Is glad to see that P[eter] S[tewart]'s prospects have improved [see JH's 1847-10-10]; JH promises MH a Daguerreotype, and comments on family activities.