Robert Woodhouse has died and if JH intends applying for the position at Cambridge, he should lose no time in making his application.
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.
Robert Woodhouse has died and if JH intends applying for the position at Cambridge, he should lose no time in making his application.
Thanks JH for his assistance with edition of William Herschel's writings [see JH's 1824-6-30]. JP indicates volume two is ready for submission to printer.
Plumian professorship is vacant owing to the death of Robert Woodhouse. How does JH feel about applying for it? The University would welcome him.
Regarding the suitable persons for the Observatories of Greenwich and Cambridge, is JH interested? Has been discussing R.S.L. Council matters with W. H. Wollaston.