Plans date and time for first ascent of balloon experiment. WS's daughter has fallen in love with JH's son William.
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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.
Plans date and time for first ascent of balloon experiment. WS's daughter has fallen in love with JH's son William.
Agrees with papers demonstrating falsity of present methods of correcting barometer for moisture and 'dogma of one gas being a vacuum to another.'
Suggests possible times to meet with JH.
Encloses newly-discovered proof that John Forbes Watson's wet bulb depression was not a clerical error.
Suggests course of action regarding 'Gen'l. Cullen's [?]' hydrometric observations submitted to R.S.L.
Asks JH to look at a letter by John Forbes Watson, whose paper the R.S.L. recently refused to read.