Asks a whole series of silly riddles, and JH complains of not having heard from AD.
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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 a whole series of silly riddles, and JH complains of not having heard from AD.
About a grant to support [H. J. R.] Petersen while he carries out the reduction of terrestrial magnetic observations.
Thanks CB for receipt of a meteorological work by CB's son [B. H. Babbage], now in Australia. JH says he grows stupider every day and is a 'prisoner in the bonds of bronchitic tyranny.'
Would support the application for a grant [see JH's 1870-5-12], but would like to see some changes in the way calculations are made.
Is pleased to hear of signs of recovery for RM from his ill health, and all wish him a complete recovery.
Note to accompany forwarding of a letter; remarks on T. R. Robinson's upcoming cataract surgery.
Comments on the effect of great temperature variations on the speculum of a telescope.
Responds that R. A. Proctor's theory [see GA's 1870-2-5] is possible, and explains why.
Responds to proposals of JH [?], and comments on the problems of the Royal Mint charges for coinage, especially coinage for foreign authorities.
Refers to several items of correspondence, and then comments on the calculation of Gaussian earth-constants to a higher power than has been done to date.
Informs JH of plans for JH receiving 5 pounds of coca he had ordered.
Encloses letter giving charges for 5 pounds of coca ordered by JH [see PR's 1870-4-1]. Asks how PR should pay.
Cannot afford fees he must pay to be ordained. Asks for financial assistance. Includes letters from a tutor and a professor.
Asks permission to send JH several articles he wrote concerning optics.
Asks where JH's opinion that subsidence of land is caused by the pressure of material accumulation is stated in detail.
Appreciates JH's opinion regarding variability of climate, although it disagrees with his own. His views are not provable and the question remains one of probability.
[Richard?] Proctor [?] agrees with JR's views on Cosmical Climates. Re-presents his theory because he feels he did not state it fairly in his earlier [1870-5-27] letter.
Discusses his thoughts on high powered definition and residual aberration in microscopes. Thinks they may be applicable to telescopes.
Sends packet from [John] Hennessey to JH for his perusal. Discusses recent weather. Wants JH's opinion of self-recording meteorological instruments. Mentions wreck of the Hansa.
Sends telegram from the Germania. Discusses crew of Hansa [see 15.292]. Asks if JH wants certain experiments done at Kew. Troubled by [W. A.] Miller's sudden illness.