Comments on WH's spectroscopic examination of cometary tails [see WH's 1868-7-2].
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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.
Comments on WH's spectroscopic examination of cometary tails [see WH's 1868-7-2].
John Tyndall left London in a hurry, but he has urged the claims of JH's son [Alexander] as a professor at the School of Mines.
Much obliged for calling his attention to M. C. E. Du Four's paper, though he cannot reconcile the general reasoning. Comments on the effect of the Sirocco on the Föhn of the Alps.
Apology for errors in binding [see SE's 1868-7-3]; new volume being bound.
Thanks JH for sending JH's work on Dante's Divine Comedy. Confesses not to be a Dante expert, but believes terza rima best for the poem in English.
Sending details of the atmosphere being affected by the new moon. Has not regularly received his astronomical notices owing to a fault in the address. News of scientific happenings in Australia.