About plans for the Cambridge observatory.
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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.
About plans for the Cambridge observatory.
News from Cambridge, including information about the new observatory.
News of Cambridge University.
About the university politics of filling vacant posts.
Of Cambridge University news, and observatory plans.
Observatory plans are progressing well; GP also sends some Cambridge University news.
About the election to fill vacancies at Cambridge University.
About intrigue and unethical dealings surrounding the election to fill vacancies at Cambridge University.
About matters relating to the building of the observatory.
On the matter of helping a friend who is being maligned [Mrs. Bowdich], and about JH's projected Continental tour.
Is afraid JH will decline the invitation to be a candidate for the Lucasian professorship, so it is assumed Charles Babbage will be elected.
About the election of Charles Babbage to the Lucasian professorship.
GP informs JH how gratified Augustus Frederick (Duke of Sussex) was by JH's letter [see JH's 1838-6-19].
About some aspects of the magnetic survey, and who shall pay for it.
About arrangements to visit JH at Collingwood.
Advises that JH has been elected President of the B.A.A.S. for its meeting at Cambridge in 1845; also some comments on the magnetic survey.
Several items of R.S.L. business.
Provides detailed information about JH's responsibilities as President of the B.A.A.S.
Further arrangements about the B.A.A.S. meeting [see GP's 1845-5-10].
Still more about B.A.A.S. meeting arrangements, especially about the magnetic survey {see GP's 1845-5-23].