Suggests regulations regarding bullion. Resolution of [Treasury] commissioners was forwarded to Sir Charles Wood.
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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.
Suggests regulations regarding bullion. Resolution of [Treasury] commissioners was forwarded to Sir Charles Wood.
Committee pamphlet expressed incorrect representation of JH's views on changes in British standards of measurement.
Reports status of Crimean medal and Cape medal [Kaffir medal?]. Benjamin Wyon expects to have models ready soon. [Addressed to 'My Lord'.]
Referring to the R.S.L. Royal Medals commissioned on 15 Dec. 1825 by King George IV, JH confirms that Sir Thomas Lawrence has agreed to design the medals.
[Writing to a correspondent in Manchester], apologizes that because of illness JH unable to take chair at 'your College Meeting.'
Specifies procedure for combining the contents of two pots.
A covering note written for an enclosed letter (not available), all of it seeming to relate to filling a Cambridge position, for which J. S. Henslow seems eminently qualified.
Is trying to expedite the shipping back to England of part of the zoological collection of Andrew Smith.
Cannot accept the invitation to stay during the B.A.A.S. meeting in Edinburgh, as JH will be unable to come.
Sees no need for changes to the plates for Outlines Astr.
Comments on the preparation of an article on light by JH for publication in Good Words.
Sends congratulations to some one who has received a Doctor of Medicine degree.
Describes in detail many of the plants at the Cape, especially flowering and variously scented ones.
A note accompanying a repayment of expenses incurred on behalf of some of JH's children.
In response to a request, JH is not willing to part with any letters from his father, William, but will send one of William Herschel's notes to his sister, Caroline.
As part of a discussion about decimal coinage, JH states that an early issue of florins is contemplated.
Explains the phenomenon known as the 'harvest moon.'
Writes to a lady at Slough to thank her for her kindness to JH's son [?].
Declines to be involved in another [scientific ?] undertaking, as JH's health is too precarious.
Suggests a resolution of a small amount of money having to do with the exchange of some chairs; also asks about a dining room table.