Comments on the unevenness of generations; speculations about life on Uranus; expects to finish translation of the Iliad by the end of the year.
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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 the unevenness of generations; speculations about life on Uranus; expects to finish translation of the Iliad by the end of the year.
Returns the certificates duly signed and also Angelo Secchi's letter, which he was pleased to see. Elaborates on the possible causes of James Nasmyth's 'willow leaves.'
Longs to hear from AD; comments on JH's health and on the weather.
On concept formation.
About old friends, alive or dead; comments on a puzzle in probability; returns to JH's old haunts.
Comments further on probability [see JH's 1865-9-14]; JH's daughter Maria is to be married; fills letter with much nonsense.
Comments on a mathematics paper AD sent. Inquires about W. S. Jevons. Is still working on translation of the Iliad.
Objections by Board of Visitors to proposed new railway tunnel near Greenwich observatory.
Has sent RW a copy of JH's catalog of nebulae and also a biographical sketch of JH's father. Thanks RW for and praises RW's works on sun spots and on the aurora borealis. Notes that G. B. Airy is now disposed to accepting the existence of solar 'willow leaves.'
Asks WW to check the R.S.L. council book for 23 Nov. 1826 to inform JH as to who was present.
Declines offer of models of the moon's structure. Does not plan to present a lunar paper to the R.A.S.
Thanks for the memorandum about the lion. Recounts tale about Emperor Hadrian; mentions Joseph Butler, Samuel Butler, and family health problems. Glad that JS recovered from 'ugly accident.'
Appreciates invitation to publish some writings by JH in The Reader, but does not at present have suitable manuscripts. Is no longer active in astronomical observation.
Is grateful for his valuable work on the Coal question. Such a work has been long wanted. Used to have a theory himself that the tides might be utilized, but working it out found it was not economic.
Discusses recent progress in color photography. Stresses that what is most needed is a way of making negatives from which colored positives can be produced. Recounts JH's recent experiments relating to the action of light on solutions of platinum.
Suggests a method employing compressed air for cooling the working area in a deep mine.
Works out the derivation for a mathematical problem, and JH suggests that son John should use this derivation in his paper; it is christening day for William, son of John's sister Caroline. [Also included is a one page letter of family news from sister Julia.]
Reports on accommodations and the activities of those family members with JH.
Tells MH about the contents of letters from sons John and William, and about daughter Isabella's illness.
Sends Book XIV of JH's Iliad translation. Fears he may not live to finish it and may not find a publisher. Glorious winter in England. Son William and wife have arrived in Calcutta.