Has not had time to work on the constellations paper because of interference due to tithe surveys and land re-assessments, which JH fears may involve a lawsuit.
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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.
Has not had time to work on the constellations paper because of interference due to tithe surveys and land re-assessments, which JH fears may involve a lawsuit.
About the desirability of closing a restricted public footpath across JH's property at Slough.
Received HR's book on navigation. Says it will be very useful. Makes several remarks and objections concerning the list of principal fixed stars.
Discusses when and how often R.S.L. committees, particularly the physical committee, should meet.
Requests JP send JH's projected barometer observation to W. R. Birt.
Regarding the arrangement of the constellations.
Giving news of his own recent work on the grouping of the constellations.
Gratified by WW's volume. Recalls JH's catenary theorems. Writes function to complete theory of exponential transcendents. WW's applications have greater practical bearing than JH's early efforts, which JH now finds difficult to decipher. Sorry that WW declared Mr. Gilbert's tables defective.
Sends barometer observations from Flushing series, Elias Loomis in U.S., and [J. S.] McCord in Montreal. Can WB prepare these before next B.A.A.S. meeting?
Returns WB's 'Curves,' which JH presented to B.A.A.S. Sends results of 1837-1838 [barometer] observations by Captain [Edward] Belcher along Pacific coast of North and Central America.