As JH is preparing a catalogue of all known nebulae, would WL please provide a complete listing of all he has seen.
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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.
As JH is preparing a catalogue of all known nebulae, would WL please provide a complete listing of all he has seen.
Outlines the early life of his father, Sir William Herschel, and shows that the cutting received from the Stroud Journal was inaccurate. [Marked 'not sent.']
Comments on several nebulae, and on GA's receiving an honorary degree [from Cambridge University].
Provides the information in response to GA's request for the position of one nebula [see GA's 1862-5-27].
JH's inability to concentrate; comments in reply to AD's 1862-4-19 and 1862-4-29.
Hopes AD will be successful in his projected paper on the infinity of magnitude. Does not recollect the paper by J. J. Sylvester. Has had a letter from Manchester on his own theory of eternal existence.
Times of 12 May called for remedy to industrial pollution. In 1838 JH visited soda production plant near Newcastle and suggested profitable modification to fume chimneys that removed harmful vapors and generated useful compounds.
[Responding to JC's 1862-5-26], discusses JH's argument against the eternal self existence of matter. Gives reference to where argument appears in JH's Prelim. Discourse.
Calls public attention to an inexpensive process JH devised in 1838 to eliminate noxious acid fumes coming from manufacturers of soda.
Sends another section of JH's Iliad translation. Regrets he cannot come to the Cambridge B.A.A.S. meeting. Sends lines of the Iliad translated by Augustus DeMorgan.
On the dynamics of atmospheric pressure and the pressure on clouds and birds.