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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.
Is sending on G. G. Stokes instructions about polarization; several expeditions have left for more southerly locations to observe the upcoming solar eclipse.
Wants to print JH's 'Half a Dozen Propositions Respecting the Gold Coinage' as conclusion to coinage controversy being published by governor of Bank of England. Asks for clarification on several points in Propositions. Hubbard is working to improve assay results at Bank.
Suggests alterations to JH's 'Half a Dozen Propositions Respecting the Gold Coinage' before this is added to Bank of England's publication on coinage controversy. Pleased by testimony of U.S. assay master [W. E. Du Bois].
Secretary to Bank of England will soon write to JH for permission to include JH's revised 'Half Dozen Propositions Regarding the Gold Coinage' at end of Bank's collection of papers on coinage controversy.
Received copy of JH's 'Half Dozen Propositions Regarding the Gold Coinage.' Does not agree with JH's last proposition. England will soon be only European nation not using international coinage. Expects that new difficulties for 'Mr. [Robert] Lowe's scheme' will be caused by France.
Forwards letter from G. A. Erman to JH and two papers by Erman. AM wants to visit JH to learn of prospects for Erman before AM leaves soon for zoological and magnetic observations in Malay Archipelago.
Will visit JH on 27 May.
Apologizes for delay in responding to JH. Wrote to JH yesterday about AM's plan to visit Collingwood.
Enthusiastically approves of JH's 'Half Dozen Propositions Respecting Gold Coinage.' Will distribute copies at Carlton Club.
Acknowledges receipt of letter and papers from G. A. Erman.
B.A.A.S. in Liverpool approved £50 grant to G. A. Erman, to be administered by Erman and JH, for computation of Gaussian constant for 1839.
Explains error in B.A.A.S. report on grant for G. A. Erman. Will notify George Griffith.
Writes to support grant request from Georg Erman of Berlin to allow Erman to do calculations on magnetism observations from circumnavigation of world.
In commenting on a paper on actinometric measurements varying with depth of atmosphere, JH questions the accuracy of the equipment used.
Thanks for grant of £50 from B.A.A.S. for calculations related to request from Georg Erman [see JH's 1870-5-6].
Comments on JH's concerns about actinometric measurements [see JH's 1870-9-20]; recommends the study of periodicity of waves on Atlantic Coast.
Requests some rewording of B.A.A.S. resolution [see JH's 1870-9-27].
Reports on status of John Robinson's eye following cataract surgery.
Mrs. W. Vivian is visiting south of France.
Has received, through the good offices of the Smithsonian Institution, a number of back issues as well as current issues of the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. The best way to send these volumes is by way of the Smithsonian.