Returns the papers of John Forbes (on mathematical subject) and comments on them. Suggests what the R.S.L. should do in such cases.
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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.
Returns the papers of John Forbes (on mathematical subject) and comments on them. Suggests what the R.S.L. should do in such cases.
The tract JH means is by L. A. Sédillot on the history of astronomy of the Arabs. Comments on this. Possesses it but it is bound in with a lot of other papers so is too heavy to send. Would he give John Williams permission to open letters addressed to the President of the R.A.S.
Has been hunting JH's proposition through the books and finds that it has dropped out of use, though the older geometrical books include it.
Would he trouble himself about the address only; all the rest will be arranged for him.
Finds that some of the pages from the paper JH recently sent him are missing. Please send if he still has them. H. P. Brougham (Baron Brougham and Vaux) does not mean to attack the undulating theory. Regarding solar spots and the surface of the moon.
Regarding the early history of the calendar. Comments on the various versions.
Has received three packets, dated and initialed. Further comments regarding Julius Caesar and the calendar.
Many thanks for his astronomy [Outlines Astr.]. Will read it later when he has more time.
Sends extracts from book by Mr. Hopkins on the solar system. Has his own theories on the Augustan calendar proved to his own mind. No authority for giving the name Saras to the period of 223 lunations.
Regarding their various points of view on a certain question.
Thanks AD for having pointed out an error in one of JH's papers.
Thanks AD for a correction in one of JH's writings; tries to explain the partial echo that occurs when blowing across the end of an open pipe.
Thanks AD for his theorems; comments on the value of such abstract speculations.
Thanks AD for the corrections to JH's writing on astronomy; congratulates AD on his book on differential calculus.
Wants to set up a benefit club; for mutual insurance of artisans, etc., and is asking AD for actuarial information.
Questions about actuarial information in AD's 1844-1-30.
On poor attendance at R.A.S. dinner, and on the results of unrestricted population growth.
Details of printing the policy for the benefit society.
More details of the benefit society.
More details of the benefit society.