[John Russell] Hind is being considered for the post of astronomer at Trivandrum in India.
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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.
[John Russell] Hind is being considered for the post of astronomer at Trivandrum in India.
Reimbursement from Navy for bills paid by JH to Georg Merz for 'Cape Equatorial.'
Cannot accept the invitation to stay during the B.A.A.S. meeting in Edinburgh, as JH will be unable to come.
Selection procedures for the vacant astronomy post at Trivandrum [see RS's 1850-3-31].
About some difficulty in trying to determine [Andrew] Graham's interest in the Trivandrum post.
[Andrew] Graham is not interested in the post [see JH's 1850-4-23].
Sends some post office stamps to pay for a 'certificate'.
Discusses changes in system of awarding R.S.L. Royal Medals.
A Mr. Patton has applied for a position as astronomer. Is he 'conversant with practical observing'?
Returns [WB's] paper on the zodiacal light. Notes error and offers JH's ideas about light's source.
Thanks GA for his 1850-4-1, and provides details of a likely candidate.