At the recent council meeting of the R.A.S., JH was nominated as president. Is returning the letters of F. W. Bessel.
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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.
At the recent council meeting of the R.A.S., JH was nominated as president. Is returning the letters of F. W. Bessel.
Is honored by being nominated as president but would prefer someone else as he is very busy and can ill spare the time.
Regrets that he cannot change the mind of the council of the R.A.S. over its nomination of JH as president.
Observations of [Kensa?] received. The George Everest-Thomas Jervis affair.