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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.
Thought that the book presented by JH had come from Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland); regrets the error.
Circular letter inviting comments on the proposal of the Council of the Society of Arts to hold another exhibition in 1861.
Query regarding the musical pitch question. [Contains draft of Herschel's reply]
His son Clement will be working in the neighborhood of Hawkhurst for the Geological Survey and would be pleased if JH would give any local advice as required.
Council of the Society of Arts has offered prizes. Would be pleased if JH would serve on the Committee to decide the prizewinners.
Council of the Society of Arts has decided to form a committee to watch the interests of telegraphy. Invites JH to become a member.