Is grateful for JH's kind invitation to Collingwood, but regrets he cannot find time to come as he sails on the day after tomorrow and has much business to fit in before then.
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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.
Is grateful for JH's kind invitation to Collingwood, but regrets he cannot find time to come as he sails on the day after tomorrow and has much business to fit in before then.
Thanks for his letter. Will look forward to receiving his article in time for the July issue of the Quarterly Review.
Further about the paper referred to in GS's 1860-6-15.
Describes a starfish brought alive to England from Iceland by an amateur naturalist.
Thanks JH for critiques of his paper; discusses Matthew Maury's work Physical Geography of the Sea.
Discusses atmospheric wave theory in reference to an experiment in JH's Meteorology. Describes weather patterns observed on the voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle.
Discusses James Stark's weather observations.
Asks JH's opinion of Charles Shadwell; wishes to elect him a Fellow of the R.S.L. Includes copy of letter of testimonial to Robert FitzRoy. Believes Shadwell's lunar work of great merit.
More rainfall data.
Thanks JH for his advice. Comments on various aspects of Iceland and Greenland.
W. H. Smyth wants another copy of JH's dialogue on atoms. W. H. Flower, Smyths' son-in-law, will have a paper published in R.S.P.T.
Thanks for his article on the telescope. Comments on this. Sends another extract from a drinking song. Hopes that G. B. Airy will be the next president of the R.A.S.
Sends copies of observatory's printed reports, 1859-60.
Gives probability formula used to determine weights of stars 3 & 35 [see JH's 1860-11-2]. Explains calculation procedures previous to 1856 and those used since 1857.
Received Outlines Astr. before leaving China. Describes 'comet' sighting [27 May 1860]. Sent details of it to William Lockhart [see Lockhart's RS:HS 19.243]. Another witness, 'Rev. G. John,' will send report to JH.
Sending weather returns that he has kept at Valencia Island. There is a possibility of error in the thermometer readings.