Thanks JH for a copy of JH's Cape Results and makes admiring comments on it.
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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.
Thanks JH for a copy of JH's Cape Results and makes admiring comments on it.
Thanks JH for a copy of JH's Cape Results and compliments JH and his illustrious family.
The excellence of JH's Cape Results has humbled JE. Much of the letter is taken up with more in the same vein, citing specific examples.
Encloses letter from K. V. Nesselrode.
Senate of Marischal College acknowledges gift of JH's Cape Results.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results by University of Glasgow.
Received JH's letter to JG's late predecessor at Swedish legation, Count Björnstjerna. Will forward copies of JH's Cape Results to Swedish institutions named by JH.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results by New York Historical Society.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Outlines MM's project to catalogue all ninth and tenth magnitude stars by duplicate sweeps with different instruments and observers. Can JH offer suggestions?
[Form letter] Acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. [Personal note on verso] Reports Association of American Geologists and Naturalists has extended its scope of interest and changed name to 'American Association for the Promotion of Science,' hoping to attract foreign scientists. As secretary, WJ invites JH to attend September meeting in Philadelphia.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Recently resolved Orion nebula with new refractor from Munich. Working now on annular nebula in Lyra.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results by Yale library. Pleased by references to recently deceased alumnus E. P. Mason.
Send presentation copies [of JH's Cape Results] to foreign recipients in name of R.S.L. Treasury charges duty only if books are presented by individuals. Will present JH's list [of recipients] at next meeting of B.A.A.S. council. Congratulates JH on winning Copley Medal. Will transmit copy [of Cape Results] to Naples.
Close to finding expeditious, symmetric method for computing Bernoulli's numbers. Resolves four formulas that HW sent to JH earlier today.
Thanks for comments on HW's paper and work on properties of Bernoulli's numbers. Claims HW's method of continued subtraction is convenient process for determining numerical coefficients. Found error, long perpetuated in literature, regarding Bernoulli's 13th number. Offers correct solution.
More calculations showing continued subtraction method in solution of Bernoulli's 13th number.
More calculations using continual subtraction method to test Bernoulli's 15th number.
More continual subtractions to resolve Bernoulli's 17th number. Error in official value given in Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. Also working on Bernoulli's 18th number.
Will submit paper to Cambridge [Philosophical] Society revising all [Leonhard] Euler's values for Bernoulli's numbers. Doubts accuracy of values up to B=49 quoted by George Peacock.
Agrees to gather and edit contributions to Admiralty Manual and supervise its printing. Will correspond next month with all [scientists] chosen by GE.