Chooses a publisher and printer for Cape Results. Decides against getting portrait painted. Makes suggestions for observations.
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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.
Chooses a publisher and printer for Cape Results. Decides against getting portrait painted. Makes suggestions for observations.
About JH's visit to Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Gauss's well-devised magnetic measuring instruments.
Has just returned from Europe and responds to TH's invitation to stay with them while JH is at the Newcastle meeting of the B.A.A.S.
Informs HB that a cask of bulbs is waiting for him at the Customs House. From JH's experience of his own bulbs, urges HB to get them quickly as they will deteriorate rapidly.
Appears to be commenting on JH's availability for a position.
Hesitant to sign application to become general advisor to Court of Directors of the East India Company. Describes concerns.
Thanks AQ for meteorological observations for September 1838 and other materials sent. Singles 12 and 13 November as extraordinarily clear. Observed a 'paucity of shooting stars' and an Aurora Borealis.
Thanks for duplicates of horary observations. Requests that AQ and his associates cease them after December 1838. Questions 'whether any and what' corrections are applied to observations. Has successfully seen second satellite of Saturn.
[Writing to Charles Grant, Baron Glenelg, British Secretary of State for the Colonies], JH advises on such aspects as the administration, staffing, and the form and content of the instruction at the newly established Government Free Schools at the Cape.
Glad to see RM's geological labors on The Silurian System completed.
Comments and expands on James MacCullagh's paper on laws of reflection and polarization in crystals.
Writes in great haste, thanking RM on behalf of Lady Herschel for taking 'trouble,' especially for 'Literary Tributes' apparently sent for Lady H's album.
JH, in preparing to leave Cape, thanks WS for having sent Nautical Almanacs to him there. Discusses motions of a comet appearing to move whimsically, the periodical star alpha Hydrae, other stars, and the re-discovery of Saturn's sixth satellite.
Has read RM's note to the Morning Post correcting error in the report on the dinner [in JH's honor]. Wishes money had not been mentioned in RM's reply. Is grateful for all RM's work in arranging for the dinner.
Thanks for work on lunar theory. Sends news from Feldhausen, noting 'latest Astronomical novelty,' the sudden growth of star Eta Argus.
Copies the inscription on a vase awarded to JH to commemorate his work at Cape Town.
Sent to CH her diploma from the Royal Irish Academy on account of her election as an honorary member.
Asks TM to set JH's chronometer and barometer.
Reports a joyous reunion with family and friends.
Impressed with the new President of the R.S.L., Spencer J. A. Compton. Has learned that Carl Gauss was awarded the Copley Medal for his research in terrestrial magnetism.