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.
WB read JH's note to Cambridge University Commissioners on 10 June. Commission will meet on 1 July.
Will send WB's notes regarding Cambridge University Commissioners' discussion of tuition. Expects fuller treatment at next meeting [1 July].
[Cambridge University Commission] Board will meet tomorrow. Will print JH's papers and send proof to JH.
Cambridge University Commissioners will meet 4 Aug.
All Cambridge University Commissioners, including JH, have approved report. Adam Sedgwick will finalize it with Bishop of Chester [John Graham] tomorrow. Board will meet on 24 Aug. to review report.
Sends final edition of report by Cambridge University Commissioners, who will meet on 30 Aug. to sign it.
JH's paper will 'infuse new life into' sound experiments now being conducted at Woolwich [Academy].
Copy of Mr. Stewart's note to JH was sent to Baldwin Walker, surveyor of Navy, to evaluate new 'stopper' it recommended. Returns original to JH.
Asks JH questions about a paper on the dispersion of light from beyond the visible violet end of spectrum.
Asks JH for introduction to C. E. Trevelyan for WB and Mr. Jenkins, representative for Mrs. Finch, to discuss their claims against Company of Moneyers regarding apprenticeship fee.
Has been studying the spectral lines of 'invisible' rays.
Thanks GS for 'canary' glass. Pleased with GS's 'photological' research, extending the spectrum.
[Marked 'Private.'] Thanks for calling RG's attention to error in Treasury minutes. Hopes to correct it before these reach Parliament.
Call on RG Thursday to discuss Benedetto Pistrucci.
Learned that Treasury minutes have not yet been read to Parliament. Will incorporate JH's amendments into these.
Asks about problems in GS's paper that JH is reviewing. Remarks on spectral lines paper presented by Antoine Becquerel to Academie des sciences.
Requests permission to visit Mint as personal favor to TC, whose father knew JH's father personally.
Gratitude for JH's permission for TC to visit Mint.
Describes second edition of AE's phonetic Latinis alphabet, referred to by JH in Admiralty Manual. Sent copy to C. K. J. Bunsen. This will be discussed at Society of Arts's Education Exhibition on 31 July. Encloses printed circular. Hopes JH will attend.
Asks JH to grant permission for WH's son and friends to tour Mint. Hopes business with Benedetto Pistrucci will be settled soon. [JH annotation: JH also wants Pistrucci business settled, but latest developments lead JH to expect anything but a satisfactory conclusion.]