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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.
To remedy the negligent omission of Humphrey Lloyd's name and the work of the observatories in a recent R.S.L.'s presidential speech, special communications will be sent to all foreign scientific institutions. Requests a special meeting of either the Council or the Committee be called to discuss the many foreign communications.
Writes of recent data. Addition of the Prague and Milan magnetic observatories will bring the total to 18 sites. In presenting to the Council a map ready for publication, has found out that the other committees have not been informed about the need to revise their own reports. Appreciates JH's letter of regret about the lack of appreciation in the recent R.S.L.'s President's speech.
Concurs with JH in his desire to stay out of R.S.L. affairs but feels it is important to promote terrestrial magnetism in the R.S.L., especially because many foreign countries with observatories like to deal officially with the R.S.L. instead of private individuals. Asks if JH wishes to continue receiving information about magnetism after JH moves to Collingwood.
Ready to propose Hammerfest to the Council as a new observatory site. Says the Christiania station is lost due to oversized equipment.