Makes suggestion on freeing the Leviathan from its trapped position.
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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.
Makes suggestion on freeing the Leviathan from its trapped position.
Discusses JS's paper on barometric table corrections in relation to mercury readings.
Pleased that WS included François Arago's lectures in his compilation. Believes the Italian edition could have been better edited. Remarks on the Leviathan problem.
Asks JH to recommend C. P. Smyth for R.S.L. fellowship. Will avoid R.S.L. meetings due to declining health. Considers a second edition of Cycle of Celestial Objects.
Thanks JH for discovering an important error in a work WS asked him to proof read. Asks JH about a variable in Canis Minor over which there is some debate.
Thanks JH for proofing his paper on barometric reading corrections.
Sends a copy of his Astronomical Investigations. Claims there is an 'inequality in the motions of Mars and the Earth.'
Regarding P. S. Laplace's barometric measurements. Michael Faraday.
Suggests ways of eliminating transmission of vibration to a piece of sensitive equipment.
Note accompanying forwarding of a paper by Otto Struve, and other minor matters.
Regarding errors in Francis Baily's tables.
Regarding orbits of comets. Lunar elements JH requires are given in P. A. Hansen's tables.
Regarding a suitable engraving of William Herschel to be added to William Walker's engraving of a meeting at the Royal Institution.
Hopes that reports he has heard of his health are unfounded. The wing of the infirmary has been completed.
Is grateful for the copies of his essays, which he treasures. Hopes his anxiety for his son in India will be groundless.
Thanks for the gift of the book. Regarding some financial affairs of JH.
Thanks for his favorable comments on her book. Sends proof sheets as part of her forthcoming book on authors.
Thanks for the valuable gift of his Essays Q.E.R. Has just moved into this cottage and would welcome a visit from JH when in the neighborhood.
Has heard that he is now residing at Collingwood and sends two papers for his perusal. Is the sketch correct? Also encloses two specimen pages of his forthcoming catalogue.
Has received the agreement noted on his ticket of 14 Feb.