Sends letter on the subject of the star maps.
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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 letter on the subject of the star maps.
Regarding the payment of John Arrowsmith's bill for the printing of the star maps, which seems excessive in relation to the low standard achieved. Would like FB's comments.
Would like some dry prints of the star map, if no further expense is involved. Is sorry that he has caused him all the bother.
Has received the maps from John Arrowsmith and sends a blank check for FB to fill in correct amount to pay the bill. Is unable to attend the Standard Commission meeting. Hopes FB can visit him in the summer.
Is sending him his chart of the stars.
Regarding the printing of the star map. Is pleased to hear that the FBs are coming to spend a few days at Hawkhurst.
Is very pleased to hear that FB's health is improving. Must take it very easy. Regarding the finance available for the printing of the star catalogue.
Regarding the printing of scientific information from government funds, with special reference to N. L. Lacaille's star catalogue.
Encloses catalogue of 1677 stars. Has sent his own report on star nomenclature to Plymouth. Will call at his house later in the week.
Is delighted to hear that the Cavendish experiments are proving successful. Is progressing slowly with the reductions of his own southern sweeps. Regarding a state pension for Mrs. Gregory (widow of O. G. Gregory); would FB give him some idea of Mrs. Gregory's circumstances.
Has no hesitation in adopting North Polar distances for his stars. Has two queries regarding the R.A.S.'s catalogue of stars. Weather has upset his own observations. Regarding a volume of T. G. Taylor's Madras Observations.
Is fully occupied reducing Cape observations, and is producing a star list by magnitudes, resulting in some interesting anomalies.
Comments on the reduction of observations, on enclosed photographs, and the health of Margaret Brodie Herschel.
Is confused by French system of recording specific gravity and seeks GA's assistance; also GA and JH are named to a committee that JH thinks only wastes money.
Regarding the advisability of purchasing a patent in the photographic process.
Complains further about French specific gravity designation [see JH's 1841-8-14 or earlier], and describes observing colored fringes on the edge of clouds.
Thanks AD for his theorems; comments on the value of such abstract speculations.
Writes to announce the birth of daughter Amelia, and to assure RA that both JH's wife, Margaret, and new daughter are doing well.
Progress on barometer curves. Invites WB to send report, to be read at B.A.A.S. meeting in July.
Sends missing barometer observations from Montreal, Flushing, and Albany. B.A.A.S meeting postponed.