Approves Mr. Adam's use of logarithms. Sends set of tables. Glad that little Emily is better.
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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.
Approves Mr. Adam's use of logarithms. Sends set of tables. Glad that little Emily is better.
[Dictated to Isabella Herschel] Transfer of funds from Thomas Baldwin's estate. [Isabella's note:] JH is still 'weak & very quickly fevered.'
Rejoices at JS's new position. Asks how to send two official documents safely to India.
Accepts dinner invitation to meet Mr. [Haufmann?]. Problems with JH's back.
Comments on various kinds of scales for measuring distances.
CT's memorandum on 'Superannuation Question.' JH argues that money or rights given to any Mint employee for his services should not be revocable but 'should be absolutely his property.'
Comments on which rights should be forfeited when public servants are dismissed.
Distance scales to be used on Ordnance Survey maps.
Requests permission to pay Mint expenses from special account until Parliamentary grant becomes 'available.'
Please confirm that duties of appointment, which JH and CT discussed today, will permit residing outside London.
E. W. Ward's assistant Mr. Watt, proposed supervisor of bullion office in Sydney mint, volunteered for military expedition to Constantinople. JH asks Treasury to choose replacement.
[Marked 'Private.'] List of Cambridge men that JH considers eligible to be moderators and examiners for Mathematical Tripos.
[Marked 'Private.'] Asks CT to submit JH's name to Lord Aberdeen [George Hamilton-Gordon] for position on Cambridge board of examiners, provided this duty does not require residence in London.
Proposes eliminating small annual sum paid for rent of Victualling office by making one payment for thirty-year lease. [JH note on verso: Calculations relating to 'State of Gold in Mint.']
Five-year apprenticeships of Henry Finch and F. R. Brande qualify them to succeed [William] Buckle in coining department. Salaries for Mint employees.
Further discussion of salary for F. R. Brande after promotion.
Governor of Malta [Sir William Reid] requests £500 in copper coins. Mint does not have enough.
[Marked 'Extract.'] Asks Treasury to define position of J. [J. S.?] Wyon at Mint.
Encourages Treasury to maintain distinction between temporary and permanent workers at Mint.
Charles Elouis requests return of contributions (£180) to Superannuation Fund over 19 years of Mint service, in preparation for Elouis's appointment as superintendent of bullion office in Sydney mint.