Chair of Botany at Edinburgh is now vacant and Joseph Hooker intends applying for it. Would be grateful if JH would supply a testimonial for Hooker. There is only one other candidate for 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.
Chair of Botany at Edinburgh is now vacant and Joseph Hooker intends applying for it. Would be grateful if JH would supply a testimonial for Hooker. There is only one other candidate for the position.
Sends a copy of an ephemeris of Biela's comet for November and December.
Has just completed the orbit for the binary star Mu2 Bootis. Sends details. Could not send his notice of Biela's comet to W. R. Dawes as he did not know his address.
Is grateful for JH's testimonial for his son Joseph. Wishes the Herschels would come and look around Kew. Regarding the Cape bulbs. Has no official person to collect seeds.
JH will hear in due course of the resignation of Mr. Young, the Medical Officer for Hawkhurst. Thinks something must be done quickly to improve matters.
Received his note this morning, the first tidings he had heard of the matter. Gives his own opinion of the matter. Would have liked to have conferred with him. His neighbors are away so has been unable to consult them.
Was at Hawkhurst for a few days but was unable to call on JH. Further regarding the case of the Medical Officer for Hawkhurst, Mr. Young.
About a number of astronomical matters, including double stars. Provides observations and calculations for Gamma Virginis. Also comments on lunar models.
Robert Peel has suggested that the Admiralty has money available to pay for improvements in scientific instruments of value to navigation.
Sending one of his own books for the R.A.S. and one of his memoirs, also one for JH. Is lacking part of his set of the Memoirs of the Astronomical Society.
Is not clear what the statement from Robert Peel means [see JH's 1845-9-29 or earlier].
Encourages GA to ask the Admiralty about the implications of Robert Peel's statements [see JH's 1845-9-29 or earlier].
Is sending JH some powder that HP thinks might be a good compound for polishing telescope specula.
[Printed notice] Latest developments at Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, including plans to form branch in London. Observer for Astronomical and Meteorological Society recently sailed for British Guiana with full complement of instruments.
Thanks for inspecting WS's [manuscript] and noting errors. Computations by Mr. Hinde [J. R. Hind?] from observations of Gamma Virginis by WS.
Is anxious to know whether JH has used William Simms's object glass, and seeks JH's opinion.
Sends memoir of James Grahame. Asks JH to distribute copies to JH's friends. If JH thinks it appropriate, he may place copies at bookseller's as well.
Consulting with [Adolphe] Quetelet regarding some magnetic instruments. Discusses reply of Treasury regarding various endeavors. Discusses shipping charges on Russian materials.
Discusses light experiments, which 'amused' her during summer. Has heard no scientific news lately. Describes summer in Rome.
Thanks RS for the engraving [of JH's portrait?]. Who should receive copies? Suggests that the 'Knight of C. Hill' [Sir James South and his Campden Hill Observatory] 'is not worth your powder.'