Apologizes for not sending JH copies of GP's recent writings. Is now beginning a memoir on action-at-a-distance [?], and wonders if the R.A.S. or R.S.L. would be interested.
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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.
Apologizes for not sending JH copies of GP's recent writings. Is now beginning a memoir on action-at-a-distance [?], and wonders if the R.A.S. or R.S.L. would be interested.
Delivered £3000 of copper coins for shipment to Ceylon today. Previous invoice for earlier shipment of equal amount of coins has not yet been paid.
Requests salary raise of £10 for assistant assayer.
Mint will be ready to receive new gold [from Bank of England] and to begin coining early next month.
Notes sent by W. H. Barton to parties with delinquent bills.
Agrees with JH's opinion regarding allowances for those Mint officers mentioned in JH's letter of 1 Sept. Accepts proposals made by JH. Sent curious Italian work on decimal system to JH.
Is to have a visit from Bank of England representatives to discuss making an adjustment in the weight of a gold sovereign; seeks GA's comments on the proposed changes.
Encourages JH to view the change being proposed [see JH's 1854-9-6] as an improvement.
Sends on a letter from George Peacock, who is quite opposed to the proposed changes [see JH's 1854-9-6]; GA would be interested in JH's response.
The proposed change would make little difference to the Royal Mint, but as GA points out, new coins would have an effect on banking transactions [see GA's 1854-9-19].
Sends copy of HW's paper, with manuscript listing properties of differences of zero. Is there a published table of such differences like that in JH's [Examples of Finite Differences (1820)]?
Applies for employment as engraver at the Royal Mint. Summarizes his past experience and provides a seal of his own design.