Regrets that illness prevented JH's attendance at the Finance Committee. Gives the reasons why a change of uniform is necessary for the Rifle Volunteers.
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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.
Regrets that illness prevented JH's attendance at the Finance Committee. Gives the reasons why a change of uniform is necessary for the Rifle Volunteers.
Origin of siliceous minerals sent by JH. Planning tenth edition of Principles of Geology. Convinced that changes in position of land and sea were principal causes of climate changes. Questions [James] Croll's theory of astronomical influences on climate, based on data from U. J. J. Le Verrier. Compares earth-pillars in Rhone valley with those in Tyrol. Wants tenth edition to include woodcut of JH's [1821?] drawings of earth-pillars.
WM's friend William Huggins is a candidate for the fellowship of the R.S.L. and would be pleased for JH's support. Please return the certificate to WM when he has signed.
Commiserates with JH in his illness, and says CB is ill also and confined to his house. Seeing JH's letter in the Philosophical Magazine [see JH's 1864-12-20] seems to CB to obviate completely the need for any further response.
Asks JH to support a petition to the government for a pension for the widow and children of George Boole.
Sends additional meteorological data for 10-12 Jan. 1865, showing effect of full moon on cloud cover.
Thanks JH for copy of [John] Davy's letter. Is sorry to see Charles Babbage pursuing old disputes in his recent publication. Wife's health is failing.
Asks for JH's opinion of the mathematical work of Professor [George] Boole, who recently died. Needs testimony to get pension for his widow and child.
Thanks JH for his opinion of [George] Boole. It may help his widow and children in their application to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple].
Note with some photographs.
Has kept the petition and will forward it after the meeting. His brother is now in the 16th book of the Iliad.
Thanks for his friendly letter written on Christmas day. Regarding the Cambridge Observations just published. His own theories of hydrodynamics.
Sending two pamphlets which he thinks are of great value, the one on the cure for sea-sickness being especially noteworthy. Would be glad of JH's support for Dr. John Chapman's claims.
Thanks for kind letter. Pamphlets should have reached him by now. Discourses on the effects of cold and heat on the spinal cord.
Officially writes on behalf of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle to thank JH for his assistance in providing samples of the South African meteorite.
Says JH will receive an official letter of thanks from the administration of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle for the meteorite samples [see GD's 1865-1-23].
Would JH look through the proof of WD's speech on the presentation of a [R.A.S.] medal to Professor G. P. Bond and make any comments or suggestions.
Encloses two certificates and hopes that he will give the candidates his support. Has just received a letter from Angelo Secchi on the Herschelian prism.
Will be very pleased to assist him in obtaining the fossils, but can he give him the location of the quarries.
Received seven copies [of JH's Cape Results]. Will forward these to India.