Sending the continuation of one of his own reports he submitted to the Academy. Comments on various meteorites and the results.
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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.
Sending the continuation of one of his own reports he submitted to the Academy. Comments on various meteorites and the results.
May be interested in seeing the enclosed [probably RS:HS 19.229]. Outlines his proposals, which he hopes to get adopted in Ireland. Trusts the east winds are not affecting him.
Many thanks for his kind note. Pleased to find he is in good health and taking an interest in the work of the youngsters. Hopes Alexander (JH's son) showed him his plan for a binocular reflector.
The paper JH sent relates to a sale of stock belonging to Willy (JH's son). Hopes he does not suffer from the return of winter.
Is grateful for the two portraits. Is sure that her brother would be pleased to show Professor Herschel his telescope. Let him know when in Gateshead.
Asks JH to write to Earl de Grey [G. F. S. Robinson] stating JS's qualifications for position on Royal Commission 'for inquiring into the question of the Extension of State Aid to Sciences.'
Cannot address Earl de Grey [G. F. S. Robinson] concerning members of Royal Commission without a request from the Earl. Cannot, therefore, write on behalf of JS [see JS's 1870-3-8].
Is engaged in bringing out a diary of his ancestor. Would like JH's view on whether Isaac Newton's mind was ever deranged.
Inviting him to donate any copies of his works on astronomy, etc.
Thanks for his kind reply and transmittal of books. Has he ever written anything on volcanoes?
Encloses copy of R.S.L. statutes. G. G. Stokes cannot attend eclipse committee. Thanks for information about Mrs. Birtwhistle.
Sports event set for first week in April. May JH's name be added to subscription list for prizes?
JH will not join subscribers for prizes. Objects to so much emphasis on exhibitions of competitive sports, to the detriment of serious education. Feels young people benefit more from spontaneous exercise.
Reports finding, while preparing a star atlas, that bright stars appear to be very dense in a region associated with the Milky Way but centered on the greater Magellanic Cloud. Because of a coming lecture on stellar distribution, 'I ... am saturating myself with Herschelian astronomy.'