Thanks for letter. Is expecting JH's son to dinner on Sunday. James Glaisher's observations all appear to point in the same direction. Will visit Collingwood when that way. Will they see JH at Birmingham for the B.A.A.S. meeting?
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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.
Thanks for letter. Is expecting JH's son to dinner on Sunday. James Glaisher's observations all appear to point in the same direction. Will visit Collingwood when that way. Will they see JH at Birmingham for the B.A.A.S. meeting?
Grateful for JH's welcome present of his article on meteorology, particularly as it contained the author's manuscript additions. Hopes that JH's son was pleased with the reception at Birmingham.
Hopes that JH will be attending the forthcoming meeting of the B.A.A.S., and offering the hospitality of one of their members.
Is greatly obliged for his two letters and postscript containing his criticism of the atmospheric law suggested by Count de S. Robert. Hopes soon to make a careful examination of the subject.
While in Switzerland requested his wife to send to JH a little tract on Count de S. Robert's hypsometrical investigations. Found that Robert's formulae worked correctly for ordinary European heights. Realizes that JH demolished Robert's theories, but Robert also showed observations on P. S. Laplace's theories.
Replies to JH's letter of 1865-5-25 concerning the altitude/temperature equation.