Will not publicly recommend JSF's brother, James Forbes, for Chair of Natural Philosophy (at Edinburgh), but praises him, his enthusiasm, and his brother's determination that he obtain the position.
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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.
Will not publicly recommend JSF's brother, James Forbes, for Chair of Natural Philosophy (at Edinburgh), but praises him, his enthusiasm, and his brother's determination that he obtain the position.
His brother intends to apply for the professorship at Edinburgh University and would be glad of a testimonial from JH.
Feels it difficult to supply a formal testimonial but has great admiration for the work of his brother and his prospects.
Further letter regarding the qualifications of James D. Forbes for the position at Edinburgh University.
Comments on the paper he has sent him. Finds it difficult to give an opinion as so much verification is required.