Has sent money for Robert Molyneux clock care of Friess, the bankers. Is grateful for JH's trouble over the clock. Do not print certain observations he sent as they form the subject of an argument with F. X. von Zach.
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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.
Has sent money for Robert Molyneux clock care of Friess, the bankers. Is grateful for JH's trouble over the clock. Do not print certain observations he sent as they form the subject of an argument with F. X. von Zach.
Mrs. Babbage, still recuperating, wishes to visit Slough. Recent publication of Charles Babbage's book should excite insurance directors. Paper by Mary Somerville was read at R.S.L. last week. Invitation for MH to visit Somervilles at Chelsea. JH admitted to Geological Society yesterday, presided over by William Buckland. Encloses JH's diploma from Royal Academy of Copenhagen. News of MH's London acquaintances.
Comments on some ideas of J. B. Lamarck, and about large fossil remains apparently found.
Cannot find observation of comet of 1759 in [James] Bradley's papers. Discusses eighteenth-century astronomical observations. Can send JH particulars if he wants them.
Description of theory of a telescope, though not practical yet.
Has just received his letter and Struve's observations. Comments on these and those of F. W. Bessel.
Is sending a letter from Dr. John Brinkley, and the corrected elements of the comet.
Requests answer to JP's earlier letter. Observations of photospheres around planets and satellites.
Sends notes on a paper which are to be submitted to James South. Also included [?] are copies of the paper for JH. Attached is a note by JH about the papers of JH's father, William.
Urges that JS not get so emotionally involved in issues concerning astronomers. 'For my own part I mean to make Science my amusement, not my business....' Comments on JS's relations with John Pond.
On JG's concern for JH's well-being.