Would like him to accept his little work on musical sounds. F. A. Gore-Ouseley has invented some new organ pipes.
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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.
Would like him to accept his little work on musical sounds. F. A. Gore-Ouseley has invented some new organ pipes.
Has been considering the subject of standard weights and measures and thinks a Royal Commission is the best idea. Regrets that JH's health prevents him from being a member.
Was grateful for his kind note and check. Family is still in difficulties. Employed by a Liverpool firm to sell engineering articles.
Intends applying for the chair of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork and would be grateful for a testimonial from JH.
[John?] Farley has just given him the readings for the minor planets. Encloses these and also readings for the major planets from U. J. J. Leverrier.
Has arranged for JH to receive a couple of plants of Fitzroya Patagonia. Hopes that the inclement weather has caused no distress.
Thanks for the gift of his poem; it has afforded him great pleasure. Is starting on a tour of South Wales and the West Country.
Would like FH to study a phenomenon that JH has noticed on the sun's disk and that has no connections with sun-spots.
Is uncertain if he has detected the lightlines on the solar surface to which JH has called attention, but there does seem to be something unusual there. No sun spots are visible just now.
Proposes to travel to visit FH next day to observe the sun with him.
Regrets he was out when JH called. Thanks for the elegant verses. Will be moving shortly to a place nearer London, which promises much. Gives notes on some more sun spots, which he has recently observed.
As JH has approved Dr. W. C. Wells's Theory of Dew he encloses extracts from the Gardeners' Chronicle to show that Wells based his paper on a false theory.
Would like JH's advice on the best shape for a rolling magnet with application for railway rolling stock.
Is grateful for his information. Believes he has found a way of overcoming the difficulties. Outlines his scheme for railway axles. Believes it will prove a great boon to the railways.
Has been requested by the Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Science to write a paper on JH and modern astronomy. Would like JH's sanction, and also a few notes on the most important aspects.
Is grateful for his letter and will study the memoirs to which he refers. The Editor would also like a photograph; can JH oblige?
A note to thank JH for sending some Latin verses of his own.
Is puzzled by two apparent contradictions in JH's recent book Familiar Lectures. Are they printer's errors? Was related by marriage with the late Sir John William Lubbock.
Thank you for his letter. There are no misprints or conflicting statements in his Familiar Lectures. Explains the various points.
Returns his Australian friend's speculations. Comments on these theories regarding atoms, etc., and gives other books and articles showing that his theories are not unique.