Comments on a proposed request for a government grant to establish a magnetic and meteorological institute.
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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.
Comments on a proposed request for a government grant to establish a magnetic and meteorological institute.
The Physical [?] Committee is meeting the next day to deal with the question of establishing a magnetic and meteorological observatory. JH [Chair of the Physical Committee?] cannot attend the meeting and sends his supportive, but cautioning, comments.
GA's correspondence with [R.S.L. president] Lord Northampton [S. J. A. Compton] will be read before Physical Committee. JH favors establishing national physical observatory and experimental institute, but wishes plan had been discussed more fully. Proposes sites, procedures, and instruments for magnetic and meteorological observations in Britain. Ideas for experimental institute.
Dissatisfied with R.S.L. procedures for establishing magnetic and meteorological observatory. Called meeting of Physical Committee tomorrow and invited G. B. Airy to attend. Busy reducing JH's observations from Cape of Good Hope.
Has called special meeting of Physical Committee to discuss SC's response to R.S.L.'s proposal to establish permanent observatory. Expresses JH's opinion and recommends temporary observatory instead. Keep this issue separate from funding for publication of present observations.
Apologizes for not having written, but has been 'harassed with desultory and importunate calls on [his] name.' Commends WS on accomplishments at Pulkowa and performance of Repsold instruments. Congratulates WS on his son Otto Struve. Received WS's figures on Halley's Comet. Comments on bright stars of variable nature. Estimates 35 or 36 magnetic observatories in the world.
Is displeased by R.S.L. Council's seemingly rash resolution with regard to idea of permanent magnetic observatory.
Responds to GA's circulated material for the Standards Commission; suggests time to digest the information.
Organizational matters relating to sending two vessels on an Antarctic expedition.
L. A. J. Quetelet's observations follow centigrade thermometer and French meter. Latitude and longitude for five sites. Three sites are unknown to JH. Hopes WB completes [reduction of barometer observations] before B.A.A.S. meeting.
Advice on how to project barometric observations onto curves.