Apologizes for having questioned GA's proposal [see GA's 1848-5-6], which is very good and should work well.
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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.
Apologizes for having questioned GA's proposal [see GA's 1848-5-6], which is very good and should work well.
Asks RM to forward letter [see JH's 1844-7-22] immediately to G. B. Airy.
Indicates travel plans, including a visit to FB, with a side trip for business to Slough. JH comments on some astronomical observations he has received.
Very upset at an attack launched against JH in a manner that denigrates JH's father, William Herschel, in the process.
Looks forward to the possibility of a visit from RJ.
A long statement against a very nasty article in the Mechanics Magazine on the priority controversy surrounding the discovery of Neptune.
Family news, questions of son Willy's position, frost in the garden, and JH met Louis Philippe.
Thanks GS for a number of his papers on railway bridge fractures, gravitation, and the spectrum.
M. McCann sent his paper to JH for communication to the R.S.L., which he did, but does not know the outcome of it. Was unable to report on it as his own knowledge was not modern enough.
Regrets he will be unable to visit Cork for the B.A.A.S. meeting, but is conscious of the honor of the invitation.
Changing a date of meeting for the magnetic committee of the B.A.A.S., and inviting GA to be there.
Arranges a meeting with CW and Edward Sabine to discuss Kew [magnetic] observations.
Sends CW a specimen of JH's 'mercurial photographic process.' JH is pleased that W. H. Fox Talbot received the Rumford medal.
Recommends Robert Hunt to fill the professorship at King's College, left vacant by the death of John F. Daniell.
The continuation of magnetic and meteorological observatories is under question, and CW's instrument for observing atmospheric electricity should be part of the discussion.
Criteria for deciding who can claim to be the discoverer of the satellite. [This letter marked 'not sent on second thoughts; see RS:HS 23.41 for letter sent.]
Makes some amendments in JH's request for information [see JH's 1845-4-6].
Asks for CW's contribution to the Admiralty's scientific manual.
Strongly supports W. E. Weber as the best candidate for the receipt of the Rumford Medal [see CW's 1849-11-10].
Invites CW to come out to Collingwood next week when some other friends are coming, too.