Announces business meeting of Council on 11 Mar.
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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.
Announces business meeting of Council on 11 Mar.
Will mention JH's subject for investigation to Sir William Thomson. Is busy with Committee on Ships of War.
Is looking for an observer for a newly-mounted telescope in India for the December 1871 eclipse. Would JH's son John be available?
Offers JH the first exemplar of AQ's work [Physique sociale]. Realizes no one will ever appreciate years of work that it has taken.
Thanks JH for accepting dedication. This has brought AQ utmost pleasure. Has dedicated few works. Expresses his esteem for JH's character and talent.
Sends an abstract of his research entitled 'The Effects of Tide on Planetary Motion.'
Tests several possible rules for curving lenses including W. L. Newman's and [Thomas] Cooke's. Tries to put W. L. Newman's rules for lens thickness-to-curvature ratios in a simpler equation.
Regarding a reflector for observation of the forthcoming eclipse.
Replying to JH's letter of 24 Jan. 1871. Thanking him for his suggestions. Has not seen JH's Cape Observations. Has seen report of R. W. Bunsen's experiments. Comments on these experiments.
Has notified J. C. Poggendorf of JH's notes on calorimeters. Discussion of Michael Faraday's indebtedness to JH's Prelim. Discourse.
Has received a letter from J. C. Poggendorf. Further reports on his experiments with gas.
Encloses notice which J. C. Poggendorf has published regarding JH. Details of further modifications in his experimental apparatus.
Has been unable to locate [W. L.] Newman's tables (astronomical) at the R.A.S. Would he please send further details.
He has seen C. J. G. Pastorff's drawings at the R.A.S. Still no trace of Mr. Newman's tables.
Encloses photographs taken of the last eclipse. Draws his attention to certain aspects of the eclipse.
Explaining why the moon's disc is circular.
Sends a copy of his book on the science of color. Their theories regarding color seem to becoming more popular.
Is grateful for the interest he takes in her son and for his letter. Comments on the German war. Has a house full of visitors. It has been very cold and they have been without water.
Hopes that he found the report of the Porcupine Expedition worth his consideration. Sends a paper in which he examines the question of the Gulf Stream.
Is a candidate for the headship of Reading Grammar School and would be grateful if JH would give him a testimonial.