Would be grateful if JH would allow his name to be added to AH's 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.
Would be grateful if JH would allow his name to be added to AH's Committee.
Regrets delay in replying. Explains the various editions of Sir William Herschel's works.
Is a candidate for the position of Radcliffe Observer and would be pleased if JH would send a testimonial to the Radcliffe Trustees.
Thanks for the memoir on his ingenious projection. Now sends a short theoretical view of Robert Stephenson on the astronomical reasons for fossil plants in the Arctic regions. Would like JH's comments.
Comments on Robert Stephenson's theory regarding the presence of fossil plants in Arctic regions and on possible astronomical causes of such fossilization; gives some of his own theories.
Says that Council of R.S.L. will reconsider whether William Pole's paper on color-blindness should be published.
Approves changes made by William Pole in his paper [see GS's 1859-4-21]; comments on appropriate presentation of JH's report on it.
Comments on paper on [Strati?-]friction of electric light.
Saw him at the B.A.A.S. meeting at Leeds. Raises query regarding the sun and Thomas Paine's views on deism.
[Responding to RA's 1859-4-16,] discusses the sun, Thomas Paine's theories, and the writing of Genesis.
Would like JH's support for his application for a position of examiner at East India Company's College. Cannot find out what he has done with Karl Kreil's book. Will send him a copy of his lecture.
Would like nominations for the Copley and Royal medals.
Not at home today when JH's son called. Conveys Mr. Allan's gratitude for JH's promise to inaugurate literary society.
Would like JH to read the enclosed and if agreeable, to add his name to those supporting the scheme [Scientific Relief Fund].
Would like to add JH's name to the first published list [of Scientific Relief Fund]. Regarding donations to the fund.