Sending the results of his comparison of JH's drawing and the actual earth pillars of Ritten and Stalden.
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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.
Sending the results of his comparison of JH's drawing and the actual earth pillars of Ritten and Stalden.
Sending a copy of his own book, God's Week of Work, which he hopes JH will accept; would welcome any comments on it.
Is greatly obliged for his two letters and postscript containing his criticism of the atmospheric law suggested by Count de S. Robert. Hopes soon to make a careful examination of the subject.
Acknowledges receipt of Royal Observatory's astronomical, meteorological, and magnetic observations for 1863.
A letter of introduction on behalf of the Prescott family.
Offers solutions to some of the problems in BP's Infinitesimal Calculus about which BP asked [see BP's 1865-10-28]. Raises a problem in probability theory regarding archery targets for BP.
Is trying to procure a church clock. Asks for advice from JH on choosing a clockmaker and a clock.
Asks that AS show JH's son Alexander around Norwich when he arrives there. Reflects on changes in geology. Has finished hexameter Iliad translation.
Has noted that Josef Stefan of the Vienna Academy of Sciences holds views on light and its polarization similar to GA's [see GA's 1865-10-30]. Agrees with GA's correction of an essay on Julius Caesar's landing in Britain.
Comments on George Witt's work on silvering glass mirrors and on JH's Telescope. States problems with his Newtonian telescope. Works on designs for a binocular telescope.
Thanks JH for contributions to his book on language.
J. S. Parlby's sister receives estate.
Approves of GA's development of a new type of eyepiece for use with the Royal Observatory's transit circle telescope.
Thanking him for his note. Relates events while in India.
Sending comparison to Almanac of 1866. Concerning meteorites. Now principal librarian and professor at the Institution.
Wished to quote JH's name in connection with one of his theories.
Thanks for referring him to one of his essays.
Is sending the proofs of his recent communication for his correction.
Requests JH sign certificate to R.S.L. attesting to Indian historian J. W. Kaye. Recalls 1861 visit with JH at Greenwich Observatory. Hopes JH's sons are doing well in India.
Is grateful for his valuable work on the Coal question. Such a work has been long wanted. Used to have a theory himself that the tides might be utilized, but working it out found it was not economic.