JJ's letter to Chancellor of Exchequer [W. E. Gladstone] regarding JJ's discovery of new alloy that makes gold strong as steel was forwarded to JH. Send samples to JH.
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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.
JJ's letter to Chancellor of Exchequer [W. E. Gladstone] regarding JJ's discovery of new alloy that makes gold strong as steel was forwarded to JH. Send samples to JH.
Recent gold from Bank of England exhibits unusual properties in melting. Add 0.0005 extra alloy to each ingot.
Describes current state of coinage of silver coins.
Suggests a circular to the banks in Great Britain to get the information that WG wants.
Deals with the question of standard weights in relation to testing the accuracy of the weights of coins.
Writes to the Governor of the Bank of England to inquire as to the preference of the public for particular coins, especially the florin [two shilling] piece.
Sends Henry Warburton's equation and integral; thanks AD for humorous story sent to Collingwood.
Accepts AD's correction regarding Henry Warburton's writings [see JH's 1854-11-2].
New South Wales Government wishes to have medals struck. JH has recommended LW. Is LW interested? LW must not, however, use Mint machinery in this process.
Seeks information on the reaction of the public to the florin or two shilling piece.