Thanks for his kind invitation. Returns to Paris on Thursday or Friday. Best wishes to Lady Herschel.
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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.
Thanks for his kind invitation. Returns to Paris on Thursday or Friday. Best wishes to Lady Herschel.
Wishes to apply for the vacancy that has occurred in the Superintendance of the Nautical Almanac, and would welcome JH's support.
Note accompanying more meteorological writings.
Letter of recommendation, praising JS's character and talent.
Reports quantities of gold and silver issued by Mint in recent months.
Gratitude for receipt of medals struck by Prince Albert Edward and Prince Alfred during their enjoyable visit to Royal Mint.
Describes new machinery at U.S. mint in Philadelphia. Refers JH to G. F. Dunning (visiting England) and Franklin Peale (chief coiner) for more information. U.S. mint uses humid assay of silver. Facts about gold assays.
Delays question of hiring Mr. Pilcher. Proceed with planning for Sydney branch mint.
Calls JH's attention to articles on mint operations by J. T. Smith.
In response to a request for information, JH says that his father, William, never had a residence in London.
Asks about precise link between rotation and revolution of satellites, and its relation to belief in existence of God.
Encloses pamphlets and would be pleased with any remarks of approbation.
Asks for the experience of other countries in introducing decimal coinage.