Sends first report of Astronomical Society council and James South's corrections for June to Dec. 1821.
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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.
Sends first report of Astronomical Society council and James South's corrections for June to Dec. 1821.
Announces formation of the Astronomical Society. Will be pleased to propose [CG] as an associate.
Has received letter of 3 June 1820 reporting on the new circle at Göttingen Observatory. Will read it to the Astronomical Society and propose CG as associate. Sends some JH publications.
CG has been elected associate of the Astronomical Society. Hopes the benefits will be mutual. Details of the prize subject for the present year. Has read CG's communications on the Reichenbach circle to the Society, where it evoked great interest. Comments on this. CG's certificate has been signed by Fearon Fallows, newly appointed Cape astronomer.
Sends first annual report of the Astronomical Society and will be sending one of JH's papers ['On the Aberrations of Compound Lenses and Object-glasses,' RSPT (1821), 222-67], which JH summarizes.
Note to accompany the sending of a number of papers; comments on the orbits of double stars.
Note regarding the translation into German of JH's Light, which JH notes has already appeared in French.
Unable to visit, but has sent two papers on the orbits of double stars. Discusses double stars, noting that four double stars are now known to orbit with periods less than a century long. Wilhelm Olbers is seriously ill.
Informs CG of the awarding to CG of the Copley medal for CG's magnetic researches; hopes that the British government will support such magnetic researches around globe.
Comments on CG's paper on the south magnetic pole, and on British efforts now underway to make magnetic observations.
The instructions for making magnetic and meteorological observations are to be revised. JH asks CG's advice about this.
[Writing as an addendum to a letter on magnetic observatories circulated by Edward Sabine], JH states that various publication concerning magnetic observations will be sent to CG.
CG having now received the Greenwich and Toronto observations, JH invites CG to write further material for the forthcoming publication.
Writing on behalf of the B.A.A.S. Magnetic and Meteorological Committee, JH invites CG to submit a reply to the materials sent to him.