R.S.L. business about an observatory at the North Cape in Sweden.
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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.
R.S.L. business about an observatory at the North Cape in Sweden.
G. B. Airy needs HL to send him the information used to set up colonial magnetic observatories.
About the urgent need to prepare a report on the magnetic observations, and that HL is the most logical person to give direction to it.
GA's correspondence with [R.S.L. president] Lord Northampton [S. J. A. Compton] will be read before Physical Committee. JH favors establishing national physical observatory and experimental institute, but wishes plan had been discussed more fully. Proposes sites, procedures, and instruments for magnetic and meteorological observations in Britain. Ideas for experimental institute.
Sends to HL a sheet of curves laid down by [Charles] Riddell, comparing Brussels declination observations with those made in Toronto. JH frequently refers to HL's work on the subject of terrestrial magnetism.
Has received JL's memoir on the tides. JH would like to amalgamate certain portions with a memoir from William Whewell. JH adds some comments on photographic experiments he has made.
Work will begin on obelisk at Feldhausen. Occultation of Gamma1 and Gamma2 Virginis observed. Triangulation survey will take TM away from Royal Observatory for extended time. Slave ship carries small pox and causes outbreak. Parallax observations show brightest stars, not nearest.
Acknowledges letter requesting land for the Magnetic Observatory. Has a portion of land available in the S.E. corner of the grounds, but it will be necessary to obtain the permission of Rear Admiral George Elliot.
Erebus and Terror have arrived in Simon's Bay. Discussed Magnetic Observatory with J. C. Ross, Captain Croper, and F. E. Wilmot, and wrote government requesting funds. Obelisk has not yet reached the Cape. Small pox rages in Cape Town.
Arrived in Zwartland in September. Surveyed grounds; measured baselines. Will be absent from observatory until Zwartland work finished.
Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has placed him on a committee to provide two actinometers for observing high in the Alps.
Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has placed him on a committee to study the possibility of using balloon ascents to study the upper atmosphere.
Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has again placed him on the committee to supervise the translation and publication of foreign scientific memoirs.
Sending check and a note from the editor of the Quarterly Review.
Has forwarded JH's note regarding a review of William Whewell's book to J. G. Lockhart, who will be very pleased to receive such an article.
Sending a list of the principal instruments possessed by Lt. Col. George Everest. Also the last report made by Everest of his observations.
Returns, with many thanks, the report of George Everest. Gives adverse comment on the alterations that Everest has made to some of the instruments.
Apologizes for his long silence. Outlines recent events at the Cape concerning Andries Stockenström, who has been replaced by J. Hare, and Major C. C. Michell, who has resigned. J. R. Innes has been all over the Colony and will shortly be coming to England. F. M. Eardley-Wilmot has dined with the Napiers.
Thanks for his long letter regarding education at the Cape. The five teachers have now arrived at the Cape. Comments on education at the Cape. Further regarding the Andries Stockenström affair.
Thanks RH for a sample of Daguerreotype paper. Comments on some aspects of the action of 'thermic' rays and 'chemical' rays in photography.