Asks JH to sign a certificate for Fellowship of the R.S.L. of [William Stanley] Jevons.
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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.
Asks JH to sign a certificate for Fellowship of the R.S.L. of [William Stanley] Jevons.
Best wishes on Mrs. Jones's birthday.
Sending a little volume of poetry written by his wife.
Many thanks for Mrs. King's volume of poetry. Comments on some of the poems.
More on the mathematical ratios of musical chords, and of dissonance [see JH's 1869-11-24].
Grateful for JH's interest in survey of Sinai Peninsula and loan of JH's theodolite. [H. S.] Palmer will visit JH and receive instruction in its use. Asks to name JH as co-trustee of survey with Henry James.
JH and R. I. Murchison have agreed to be trustees [of Sinai survey; see PB's 1869-12-9]. Subscriptions to support survey. Sends description of expedition. Royal Geological Society unanimously approved survey.
[Summary in JH's hand:] Enquiry about Henry John Hollier's request for advance on mortgage. Enclosed form to be signed by JH [as co-trustee] or chief accountant of Bank of England. [JH note: signed form and returned it to Anderson and Shonbridge. Forwarded letter to Few & Co.]
Sends Christmas greetings to family. Still has her intellect and is staying busy. Thanks Margaret Brodie Herschel for visiting Agnes [Greig].
Admiring 'working man' requests signature to be placed under JH's portrait as 'a remembrance of a great astronomer.'
Many thanks for the papers on the chemistry of the blast furnace. Remarks concerning this.
Sending JH a set of stereograms of prisms.
Thanks for his kind letter regarding his book. Would be very grateful if JH would send him his photograph and autograph signature, also signatures of any famous Europeans for his album.
Thanks for news of Mrs. Birtwhistle. Hopes JH returns to good health.
Calls attention to sunspots then visible. [Written by JH under the pseudonym 'Helioscopus']