Acknowledges receipt of JH's 1850-5-28; GA will pass on the news to some others.
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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.
Acknowledges receipt of JH's 1850-5-28; GA will pass on the news to some others.
Congratulates JH on his important new position [Mint]; wants to start seriously to prepare for July 1851 solar eclipse [see JH's 1850-8-18 or later].
Acknowledges the receipt of JH's suggestions [see JH's 1850-12-15]; urges JH to consider going to Norway or the Baltic to see the eclipse.
Apologizes for not being at home when JH called, and thanks JH for his family's kindness to GA's children during the past winter.
Is confident the letter [see JH's 1850-12-15], which is supposedly from François Arago, is a forgery.
Committee set up by the B.A.A.S. to consider methods of observing the forthcoming eclipse of the sun; observations on this.
Comments on a number of possibilities for the post at Trivandrum [see JH's 1850-3-20].