Sending a number of W. J. Hooker's Icones in which he will find a figure of the little green orchis. Can find nothing like his Satyrium. Would he send the bulb trowel he left at the Herschels'.
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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.
Sending a number of W. J. Hooker's Icones in which he will find a figure of the little green orchis. Can find nothing like his Satyrium. Would he send the bulb trowel he left at the Herschels'.
Many thanks for the bulb; succeeded also in digging one up. Has collected a sackload of bulbs from Table Mountain and sends a few orchidae. Hopes the orobanche will not wither. The composite from JH's garden is Zinnia elegans, a Mexican plant.
JH's plant is a Serruria, a very large genus. Is not certain of the name of the little yellow bulb. Working on a glossary of botanical jargon and a Genera of S. African Plants. Hopes he will send him any odd looking plant when he goes out bulbing. Is working on the Compositae at the moment. Alphonse de Candolle has issued a beautiful arrangement of this difficult family.
Further regarding vegetable colors. Advises him to write to Mrs. Griffiths (Torquay) about algae.