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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.
J. T. Boileau and L. E. O. Ludlow were appointed by H.E.I.C. to direct Indian observatories. R.S.L. is concerned that it has no choice in selecting directors. Instruments for H.E.I.C. observatories. Should JL request additional staff for all 16 observatories, or only for nine permanent ones?
A circular letter to the electors of the University of Cambridge, asking for their support in the upcoming poll for representative to Parliament [see JH's 1832-11-30].
Thanks JH for the receipt of a report of JH's work.
Council passed 'with great unanimity' resolutions regarding permanent magnetic observatory to be established in London.
Further remarks on council meeting about permanent magnetic observatory and G. B. Airy's answer [to invitation to head it?]. Awaits communication from William Lamb (Lord Melbourne).
Has talked to William Lamb (Lord Melbourne) about permanent magnetic and meteorological observatory. Was received 'as well as we could have anticipated,' but without definite answer. Thinks head for observatory should be appointed and give lectures.
Acknowledges receipt of [JH's Cape Results].