Invites JH to join committee to replace standards of weight and measure destroyed in 1834 Parliament fire. Happy that JH returned safely to England.
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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.
Invites JH to join committee to replace standards of weight and measure destroyed in 1834 Parliament fire. Happy that JH returned safely to England.
TS will be chairman of Decimal Coinage commission. Do majority of bankers queried by JH favor this decimal system? Death of William Whewell's wife, Cordelia, sister-in-law of TS.
Questions from Lord Overstone [S. J. Loyd] about decimal coinage system.
Encloses report by Lord Overstone [S. J. Loyd, on decimal coinage]. Will answer JH's note tomorrow.
Just now received 'blue book' on decimal coinage from printer. Forwards it to JH. Apologizes for putting this burden on JH, but TS wants to be fully aware of all issues relating to decimal coinage. Answers JH's questions about report.
Quotes 1682 tract by William Petty advising Marquis of Halifax to employ decimal system of currency.
Platinum pound-weight standard is deteriorating. Wants Treasury to bring it and the yard standard under observation of surviving committee members.