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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.
Requesting any information on J. J. Littrow for his obituary notice.
Account of the eclipse seen at Pavia.
Further remarks concerning the recent eclipse and his own and G. B. Airy's papers on the subject.
Has read G. B. Airy's paper on the eclipse. Would JH send on FB's remarks on the eclipse to Airy. Comments on the phenomenon of the eclipse.
Comments on the various reports of the recent eclipse. Regarding the star constellations.
Has seen G. B. Airy. No meeting at Airy's. Further regarding reports of the recent eclipse.
Encloses a publication. Thanks for the gift to Miss Elizabeth Baily.
Regarding his own support for W. B. O'Shaughnessy. Star reform in the Southern hemisphere.
Further regarding the method to be adopted for the printing of the star catalogue.
Further regarding the method to be adopted for the printing of the star catalogue.
Further regarding the constellations.
Encloses a draft of a letter that it is proposed should be sent to Sir Robert Peel.
Accepts his invitation to visit him in order to discuss various matters.
Has copied out JH's map showing the constellations as named by JH. Is moving to Richmond for a few weeks. Gives a message from H. C. Schumacher.
Gives his proposal for the amendment of nomenclature for the northern constellations. F. W. A. Argelander's new celestial atlas. Regarding JH's southern map. The letter from the B.A.A.S. has been sent to Sir Robert Peel.
Regarding JH's answer to his own paper on the revision of the boundaries of the constellations.
Can JH come to the congress on Friday?
Has invited some astronomical friends to the meeting on Friday.
Has obtained maps from the Diffusion Society and marked in the new stars and the constellations. Has arranged to send some to him.
Is returning the report to the B.A.A.S., with one alteration. Will forward the map to Mr. Jensen with JH's remarks.