Can JH spare a few minutes one morning as he wishes to show him an invention to overcome seasickness; would like his comments.
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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.
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Can JH spare a few minutes one morning as he wishes to show him an invention to overcome seasickness; would like his comments.
Will not detain JH more than half an hour; if his invention is not similar to JH's it will amuse him. Gives his reasons for seasickness. Will call tomorrow.
Since they met yesterday he has thought of a further modification in the apparatus to prevent seasickness and would like JH's opinion.
Has overcome pitch and roll with his inventions. Instrument is quite simple. What is he to do with it now?
Has made a bad sketch of the instrument to prevent seasickness; comments on it.