Of the general ignorance of meteorological matters, especially among sailors; wider distribution of HP's works would help, but HP is too poor to do that.
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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.
Of the general ignorance of meteorological matters, especially among sailors; wider distribution of HP's works would help, but HP is too poor to do that.
Arranges visit to Royal Mint for Prince Albert Edward and Prince Alfred.
Prince Albert has postponed visit to Royal Mint for two princes until after Easter.
[Marked 'Confidential.'] JH's reaction to paper was precisely what CT felt. Plans to communicate it to no one else.
Does not believe that the technical weights of the Bank of England should be given the same legal status as primary, and official, weights, measures, and coinage [see GA's 1853-2-11].
Sends photographs of Great Dragon and the Ice Cavern in Teneriffe. Notes that images are finer when glass plates are used.
Wants to visit the Royal Mint; the coinage/weight question is more complex than GA imagined [see GA's 1853-3-15]; seeks JH's opinion on part of a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Understands JH's position [see JH's 1853-3-26]; expects the report will be taken to Parliament.
The book on the coinage of England in the 1670s is by one William Jeake. Comments on the diversity of coins available at that date and how their values changed by proclamation. Should the present coinage be decimalized he hopes the half crown will be withdrawn.