Asks JH to review a document. HH will look for errors in other copy of it.
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.
Asks JH to review a document. HH will look for errors in other copy of it.
Suggests putting notice of new weighing machine into JH's general report on Mint.
Will present JH's report on Mint immediately. [Parliamentary printer] Hansard will be informed that JH is responsible for all corrections. Advises including two notices in report: that Mint refinery was leased to Anthony de Rothschild, and that Mastership is no longer a Parliamentary office.
Does not know how to reply to Robert Mushet's claim for compensation for loss of succession to G. F. G. Mathison's office. No such succession was ever granted before. Returns Mushet's letter.
Suggests form for announcing new character of Mastership of Mint in JH's report to Parliament. Let Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] approve it before JH inserts it into report.
Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] approved JH's report on Mint reform. CT noted some corrections. JH may make other corrections up to time report is read to Parliament.
Asks for JH's opinion on answering Benedetto Pistrucci's letter.
Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] approved JH's change to Mint report regarding office of Master. P.S.: Who authorized annual housing allowance of £300 for Master's residence?
Does Mint provide official housing for Master? If not, JH's annual housing allowance of £300 should be extra, and not deducted from JH's salary of £1500. Thanks for JH's hints on responding to Benedetto Pistrucci.
Would like the brief version of Richard Sheepshanks's paper to send to William Parsons.
Thanks JH for recommendation for position in Department of Antiquities at British Museum.
Cannot nominate [Richard] Jones for position at Fenly. Has already given another name to the Queen.
Contrasts EC's catalogue of comets with that of J. F. Encke.
A note about how to send mail to Richarda Airy in Madeira.
Suggests course of action regarding 'Gen'l. Cullen's [?]' hydrometric observations submitted to R.S.L.
Congratulates TM on engineering the construction of transit circle. Sent letter to Francis Beaufort concerning transit circle.
Discusses the naming of a Plateau of Brussels. Discusses names to go on list; gives JH's and Michael Faraday's recommendations.
Thanks JH for recommendation to R.S.L.; asks if JH can write a note so HP can continue for candidacy.
Thanks JH for note of recommendation for his continued candidacy to the R.S.L.
Returns Richard Sheepshanks's papers with some comments [see GA's 1852-1-15].