Comments on JH's estimate for the number of pages for the Admiralty Manual. Auckland [George Eden] does not mind the manual being enlarged should JH think it necessary.
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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.
Comments on JH's estimate for the number of pages for the Admiralty Manual. Auckland [George Eden] does not mind the manual being enlarged should JH think it necessary.
Sending his notes for JH's Admiralty Manual. Would have been earlier but he dislocated his left shoulder and had to have the services of an amanuensis.
Please convey to the R.A.S. his thanks at the honor of being elected an Associate.
Members of R.S.L. committee to study Kew observatory. Copies of correspondence between ES and W. R. Birt. If Birt is retained, expenses of Kew observatory will exceed money granted by B.A.A.S. Before applying for government assistance, JH and G. B. Airy must agree on plan.
JH may meet with Kew committee in London on 16 June. William Mann will probably replace late T. G. Taylor in Madras. Suggests that W. R. Birt replace Mann at Cape of Good Hope. Position at Kew would not be suitable to Birt.
William Mann's application to replace late T. G. Taylor [at Madras observatory] has been approved by H.E.I.C. B.A.A.S. cannot offer good position at Kew to W. R. Birt. Goals of B.A.A.S. committee to report on Kew observatory. Please return [T. R.] Robinson's account of William Parson's telescope.
Encloses letter to ES from Mr. Hutton.
Discusses reduction of observations, continuation of various observatories, and the necessary financial arrangements for each. JH's actinometer instructions were misunderstood at Toronto.
Hopes JH can attend council meeting on 7 July. Thinks Kew Observatory could be made an important magnetic and meteorological station.
Will be sending on 10 June all the equipment for Thomas Maclear, but the tracing paper is not forthcoming. Has JH anything for the Cape?
Regarding a successor to William Mann should the latter be appointed to Madras.
Is sending a sketch of methods to make a scale to meet increasing pressure at depths. Perhaps JH could suggest a suitable instrument.
Thanks for his suggestions and gives a possible modification.
Is going to get one of the instruments that JH suggested manufactured. Would he therefore send the dimensions of the instrument.
Further queries about the manufacture of the sympiesometer. Will be moving to Shirehampton in a few days time.
Thanks for his suggestions on the instrument, which E. A. L. Negretti is working on. Gives some more details of the instrument.
Encloses samples of the Ibla. Outlines the method of making it change color. Hopes he will not have to re-write his geological chapter for the Admiralty Manual.
Admiralty have applied to Mr. Morris for the drawing of the stone pillar for the Cape equatorial by Georg Merz. Suggests that the type in use at Pulkowa be used. Weather prevented outing to Bodiam.
Per JH's directions, sent copies [of JH's Cape Results] to [Francesco] De Vico, Chetham's Library [Manchester], and Wilhelm Struve.
RN's brother [G. T. Napier] is travelling in Italy, but RN opened JH's Cape Results when Charles Bunbury explained its contents. Reports recovery of 'Cecilia's eyes.'