Sending a curve of mean temperature [of the moon]. Comments on this. Is to be printed in the proceedings of the R.S.L.
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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.
Sending a curve of mean temperature [of the moon]. Comments on this. Is to be printed in the proceedings of the R.S.L.
Introduces WH to JH, explains where WH fits into the Herschel family, and tells a little about WH's life.
JH's translation of Frederick Schiller's poem has given great pleasure to many of his German friends. Quotes extract from the comments of Ferdinand Freiligrath.
Thanks for his kind note. Is convinced that John will benefit the House by becoming an M.P.
Thanks for his letter. Sorry to hear that JH's name is not on the Register, but can they add his name to JL's Committee? His father is very ill.
Has just received the accompanying letter from James Croll so that JH can save himself the trouble of answering CL's query.
Thanks for copies of his interesting and conclusive letters. Has just returned to Edinburgh and has not yet seen Miss Elizabeth Drummond. Hopes the delightful weather has relieved JH's bronchitis.
Thanks for letter. Is expecting JH's son to dinner on Sunday. James Glaisher's observations all appear to point in the same direction. Will visit Collingwood when that way. Will they see JH at Birmingham for the B.A.A.S. meeting?
Has great pleasure in receiving a visit from W. C. Morland. Will be pleased to visit the Herschels. Has been travelling in Italy; visited Vesuvius and also called on Angelo Secchi, who was engaged in making a model of the sun's disc and using oat corn grains to illustrate the willow leaf effects.
Thanks JH for compliments on his work [History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability]. Suggests changes in the Wilhelm Struve probability problem.
Accepts position at Blackheath Preparatory School.
Notifying him of a forthcoming meeting of the Lunar Committee of the B.A.A.S.
Thanks for photograph of JH, but current outcry of photographers about copyright forces WW to request that JH sit for portrait in WW's own studio.
Forwarding JH's parcel to Jean Chacornac in Paris. Explains R.S.L.'s postage policy for international parcels to and from members.
HH has nominated JH's son Alexander to fill a post become vacant by the death of Robert FitzRoy.