Sending the dimensions of the Great Stone in the quarry near Baalbek. Has sent his paper to the Consul in Egypt. Greatly enjoyed his stay at the Herschels'.
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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.
Sending the dimensions of the Great Stone in the quarry near Baalbek. Has sent his paper to the Consul in Egypt. Greatly enjoyed his stay at the Herschels'.
Hopes he can have JH's vote. Would like to add JH's name to his committee, which would not involve him in any work.
Many thanks. There is no name he prizes more than JH's.
[Printed notice] Ask election support for A. J. Beresford-Hope, representing Cambridge University.
Sends copy of FJ's new theory of musical scale. Asks JH's opinion.
Death of TJ's uncle, W. R. Dawes. Funeral is tomorrow.
Will assume trusteeship if he is named in the document. Discusses trying to find Neptune with his telescope.
Discusses the sudden motion of some sunspots. Does not think planetary action is a very probable cause. Discusses upcoming conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.
Sends article on temporary color-blindness. G. B. Airy's book on sound [On Sound and Atmospheric Vibrations] is finished.