JH is appointed to a committee that will consider repeating the Balloon Experiments of 1852. William Whewell will head the committee.
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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.
JH is appointed to a committee that will consider repeating the Balloon Experiments of 1852. William Whewell will head the committee.
Forwards copy of the resolution of the General Committee of the B.A.A.S. concerning the continuation of study of magnetic observations.
Humphrey Lloyd, Thomas Robinson, and Edward Sabine will form a committee to continue studying magnetic observations.
JH appointed to a committee including George Wilson, David Brewster, Clerk Maxwell, William Thomson, and William Pole to study color blindness. They will be granted £10.
Requests JH's views on inductive logic for a publication by Cambridge.
Asks JH to send copy of [T. R.] Robinson's memorial to John Russell on the southern telescope. Robinson's statement 'is wanted' for upcoming council meeting and has not yet arrived.
Discusses need for barometric observations; asks if JH has plans to build a barometer.
Will JH be prepared to present report on 'Nomenclature of Stars' at Manchester meeting in June?
Names committee, including JH, to superintend 'translation & publication of scientific memoirs.' [Printed note regarding] grants of money.
Reminder that JH must report on 'Reduction of Meteorological Observations' at next meeting.
Sends copy of JH's Cambridge B.A.A.S. address. Printer will send proofs for JH's inspection.