Is arranging a meeting with CB.
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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 arranging a meeting with CB.
Writes to inform SW of the death of JH's mother.
Makes arrangements for a visit to TH to see some of J. J. Lister's experiments. JH is sending TH some gelatinous matter that JH found in JH's telescope.
As no one seemed to be finding Biela's Comet, JH sat up several nights looking for it and now has located it.
Thanks MF for his kindness and attention to JH's mother in her final illness, and asks JG for his bill.
Supports WR's pursuit of Edinburgh professorship. Will not, however, write to the Lord Provost for WR. Feels public steps should be taken to fill position [see WR's 1832-11-8].
Asks WS to forward enclosed note to Professor Schlegel. Disappointed that his celestial mechanics lecture [review] did not appear in last issue of the Quarterly Review.
Requests that AQ forward letter to London explaining JH's delay in returning home. Promises to send latest paper on orbits of double stars. Mentions [Wilhelm] Struve's confirmation of data. States that [Wilhelm] Olbers is dying. [H. C.] Schumacher is recovering.
Accepts position on Council of B.A.A.S. Approves of next meeting's being held at Cambridge.
Is drawing up a new actinometer and comments on JF's ideas about it. Encloses a letter to JF's brother.
Will leave Slough, if necessary, to vote in Parliamentary election for JL as representative for Cambridge.
Gives permission to do anything with JH's letter; asks to be excused to J. W. Lubbock for not having written back.
Gives JF permission to use JH's letter to JF's brother in any way JF sees fit to obtain the Chair of Natural Philosophy (at Edinburgh), but still does not wish directly to promote JF's selection. Briefly discusses results of JF's experiments with the actinometer.
Declines invitation to serve on next R.S.L. Council, being busy with preparations for Cape trip.
Recalls with delight experiments in solar radiation at MG home and puts MG in communication with James Forbes of Edinburgh.
Sends thanks and congratulations for paper verifying electric origins of all magnetism. Will give JF an actinometer with complete instructions. Includes some instructions for obtaining and using it. Sends regards to Mario Gemellaro, should JF go to Catania.
Suggests that JF use his instruments to compare the force of solar radiation at high and low elevations. Delineates possible methods for this experimentation, and lists results of similar experiments. Includes further information on the actinometer.
Will not publicly recommend JSF's brother, James Forbes, for Chair of Natural Philosophy (at Edinburgh), but praises him, his enthusiasm, and his brother's determination that he obtain the position.
Hopes for conveyance to Cambridge in covered vehicle for meeting of J. W. Lubbock's committee.
JH and Margaret Herschel visited the Isle of Wight.