News of his family. Joseph Clement's work on the machine and alterations proposed. Clement wants payment of £150. Recent happenings at the R.S.L.
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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.
News of his family. Joseph Clement's work on the machine and alterations proposed. Clement wants payment of £150. Recent happenings at the R.S.L.
Has just had a letter from W. S. Stratford announcing his decision to resign from the secretaryship of the Astronomical Society. Comments on this. He himself is also thinking of resigning the Presidency at the Anniversary meeting. Regarding the microscopes.
Regarding the possibility of losing the services of W. S. Stratford, and also the president (JH). Lord High Admiral will be balloted for at the next meeting.
Plumian professorship is vacant owing to the death of Robert Woodhouse. How does JH feel about applying for it? The University would welcome him.
Hopes that JH will apply for the vacant position at the University.
'Our volume is nearly ready.' Problem dating vernal equinoxes before Christ's birth.
Declines being considered for Cambridge's Plumian Professorship. Comments on his plans for the future, including JH's work on JH's father's nebulae.
Asks JH for efforts on behalf of [William] Ritchie. Urges JH to apply for vacant Lucasian professorship. This failing, hopes Charles Babbage will be a candidate.
Regarding the suitable persons for the Observatories of Greenwich and Cambridge, is JH interested? Has been discussing R.S.L. Council matters with W. H. Wollaston.
Sending an appointment [probably V-P of R.S.L.], which will please every member of the R.S.L. Unable to be in London on the 10th, when Henry Kater will be at the breakfast at the Club. Hopes to attend on the 17th.
Responds to having been chosen to be the Vice-President of the R.S.L.