Would like his views on an actinometrical scheme. Has been busy over the affairs of the late Sir James C. Ross.
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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.
Would like his views on an actinometrical scheme. Has been busy over the affairs of the late Sir James C. Ross.
Is grateful for JH's notice of his ideas. Outlines his ideas for an actinometer.
Grateful for the efforts of JH and his fellow astronomers in England for the continuation of TM's pension. Busy unpacking valuable library of Sir George Grey presented to the Cape. Details of his recent observations of stars. Weather has been bad. Surface of the object glass of transit circle is badly corroded. Sailor son is well again.
Annual visitation of Royal Observatory by Board of Visitors will be held 6 June.
Returns paper of G. B. Airy, Astronomer Royal, and submits report on it.
Explains how to detect errors in catalogued positions of stars. List of new nebulae in [G. F. J. A.] Auwers's catalogue.
Does JH need the original calculation sheets to deal with the errors in the nebula catalogue [see GA's 1863-2-23]?
Introduces JH's son Alexander to PS, and hopes PS will support Alexander, who is seeking to become Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.
Will help JH or JH's son [Alexander], whose mind PS admires, in any way possible.
Hopes JH will present the essay prepared for the Leeds Astronomical Society lecture series in person. Describes format of the series and background of the society members.
Sends GA a list of errors found in the sheets for the nebula catalogue [see GA 1863-5-14].
Provides last list of errors and explains JH's role in detecting them [see GA's 1863-5-26]; is worried about the task of proofreading.
Requests JH send an essay for the Leeds Astronomical Society lecture series.
Sending through H. M. Parker proof of the engraving of the Nebula of Orion. Comments on this.
The delay in thanking him for his gift of the Iliad has been occasioned by ill health.
Like Professor Olearius Schneiderhausen, AD has had only one coat in two years. JH will go on for many more years. Sends one of his theorems.
Is sending JH several lists of nebulae, and comments about some of the items. [Almost illegible.]
Is writing to clarify some earlier information about a list of nebulae that he had sent to JH.
Addresses each error JH discovered in reduction of JH's catalogue of nebulae [see JH's 1863-5-15].
Gratitude for copy of JH's Iliad. Hopes [Margaret] Herschel is [recovering from] her journey and that accounts from Ireland are still good.