Expresses some concerns about GA's having indicated support for a particular candidate for the Board of Visitors. [Very faint.]
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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.
Expresses some concerns about GA's having indicated support for a particular candidate for the Board of Visitors. [Very faint.]
There is a need for a meeting of the Committee of Physics [R.S.L.] to discuss the current method of making temperature corrections for magnetic observations.
Detailed response to JH's 1846-10-22 about the matter of temperature corrections for magnetic observations.
Suspects that the original complainant about temperature corrections [see JH's 1846-10-22] was in fact working with a faulty magnetometer.
A committee meeting is being called [see JH's 1846-10-22].
Informs JH that GA has stated that he will no longer work with James South on the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory; wants JH to be prepared for possible trouble.
Essentially agrees with JH's plan for distribution of the star catalogues [see JH's 1846-11-18].
A note to arrange a meeting to discuss the propriety of continuing the Kew Observatory.
Proposes a plan for the distribution of printed copies of the star catalogues [see GA's 1845-7-25].
Seeking information to help JH prepare an obituary notice, for the R.A.S., of F. W. Bessel.
Sends some books in response to JH's request for information about F. W. Bessel [see JH's 1846-12-20]; GA's daughter Hilda is very ill.
Has obtained puzzling results when reducing JH's observations of the sixth satellite of Saturn.
Has made some minor adjustments in JH's satellite of Saturn results [see JH's 1846-11-2], but the major discrepancy still exists.
GA's suggestions [see GA's 1846-11-19] have helped JH solve his problem; now JH has a problem with observations of the second satellite of Saturn.
Asks a number of questions that need answers before considering the purchase of a large new telescope for the Royal Observatory.
About family health; JH's star counting has led him to believe that all stars are part of one sidereal system [the Milky Way].
Has still not received F. W. Bessel's original letter [see GA's 1844-11-16].
Cannot find F. W. Bessel's letter [see JH's 1846-7-31]; believes GA returned it to JH a long time ago.
Letter of introduction for Professor [J.?] Hoffer of Vienna.
Regarding the printing of JH's countings field-falls of stars.