Offering JH the position of assistant tutor at Michaelmas. [Draft from JH declining.]
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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.
Offering JH the position of assistant tutor at Michaelmas. [Draft from JH declining.]
Explaining his new theory of the atmospheres of the sun, planets, and stars.
Regarding the vacant post of Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge. Has heard that the works of Leonhard Euler are being reprinted. Would he obtain the return of one of CB's books from Mr. Higman.
Is sending a problem in analysis for his comments. Gives solution to functional equations of the second degree. Hopes to see him when he passes on his way to Cambridge.
Wished JH had visited him when in London. Gives some functional equations for his comments. Wants a form in order that he (CB) may be elected to the R.S.L.
Regarding his own functional theories. Let him know when next in town.
Newman has sent the apparatus. Problems in calculus.
Giving form for recommendation to be elected to the fellowship of the R.S.L. Has been offered space in a magazine for reviewing mathematical subjects. Suggesting anonymous work on analytics by him or JH.
Soon leaving for a short visit to Devon. Hopes he will call when passing through London. New means of preventing explosions in mines. Gives an equation for JH's comments.
Will see him on Thursday. Has paper ready for the R.S.L.
Sending problems in functional analysis. Please send his manuscript on functions to Devonshire Place.
Has received his paper, which will be laid before the R.S.L. as soon as he has an opportunity. Is obliged to him for compressing the matter to so small a compass.
Sends paper on fluxions written for Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Uses new formulas, dispensing with binomial theorem. Brings logarithmic and exponential formulae within power of common algebraic processes.
Expects JH for dinner Friday. JH's old friend Ianetta learned that she is descended from Scotland's Queen Annabella.
Upbraids JH for not writing, and announces the birth of his daughter, Anne.
Talks about the law, especially now that JH has begun his study of it.
Complains that JG had to discover from strangers that JH was ill.
Distressed to hear JH is giving up law; family news.
Sends best wishes on JH returning to St. John's to teach; about books JG has read and some of his cases.