Reading proofs of JH's Essays Q. E. R.; working on an article on meteorology.
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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.
Reading proofs of JH's Essays Q. E. R.; working on an article on meteorology.
Sending a little joke on a political theme. Further regarding a query of JH's on a rabbit. Gives a problem on a polygon. Meteorology is peculiar as weather does not appear to be governed by any laws.
On some odd results JH has arrived at about P. S. Laplace's barometric formula.
Returns his cancel, which he found very amusing. Mrs. De Morgan is now at Hampstead suffering from an incurable complaint. Further comments on the beats of musical consonances and Robert Smith's theories.
On magic squares.
Hopes his health is improving. Where can he find the article expressing adjectives in algebraic symbols? Went to the R.A.S. in July and found much as usual. Mrs. De M. now at Hythe with the children. Elizabeth Baily appears to be in excellent health.
Regarding the possibility of decimal coinage. Washes his hands of adjectives expressed in algebraic form. Has received good news from India.
S. J. Loyd's (1st Baron Overstone) queries and the work of the Commission on the Decimal Coinage. Is sure he read the algebraic adjectives in the Memoirs of the Analytical Society. May be related in some way. His wife is slowly recovering. Has JH read about the Devil's Elixir?
Has received a list of witnesses whose answers have been printed for Thomas Spring-Rice (1st Baron Monteagle).
Hopes the Indian mail has taken a weight off JH's mind. George Peacock is anxious that JH should be in their plot regarding the introduction of the decimal coinage.
Comments about JH's ancestor, Hercules, and replies to S. J. Loyd's (1st Baron Overstone) queries [see AD's 1857-10-9].
Will send the proofs. Has heard all about JH's ancestor [Hercules]. Miss Louisa has committed manslaughter.
Has the proofs. Gives some queries concerning them.
S. J. Loyd (1st Baron Overstone) has agreed that the papers be presented to the Crown. Pray let him have his proof as soon as possible.
A proposition in perspective, and some nonsense.
Write to Mr. Richerly for as many as he wants. Has sent proof to George Peacock; might send one to the Dean of Salisbury. County persons are capital people for their purposes.
Too busy to answer his last letter until now. His theorem on perspective is pretty and easy. Quotes one he uses. Has been busy finding the proof that every algebraic equation has a root. Has been organ tuning. Comments on the method of tuning using beats.
Congratulations and best wishes for JH's daughter recently married. If he has any material for the annual report, please send it.
Questions the exact beginning of the year 1857, and offers 'Old King Cole' in Latin.
Queries on what meridian the year began. Returned a book to the R.S.L., which had been away for many years. Believes the R.S.L. Library was expurgated between 1734 and 1740.