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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.
Is returning C. P. Smyth's paper ['Report on the Teneriffe Astronomical Experiment of 1856,' [R.S.P.T., 148, 165-], believing it now 'unobjectionable for publication.'
Agrees to support C. P. Smyth for membership in R.S.L. Objects to C. P. Smyth's statement regarding his discoveries observing at high altitudes. Stresses importance of variable star work.
Has heard WS is publishing an English translation of François Arago's astronomical writings. Urges against including Arago's lectures if the Italian translation is indicative of their level of accuracy. Lists numerous errors in that edition. [Marked 'not sent.' Note added to CDraft (RS:HS 25.13.13) states: 'A letter differently worded but noting some of these points, but not all (for particular reasons) if I remember right was sent.'
Makes suggestion on freeing the Leviathan from its trapped position.
Discusses JS's paper on barometric table corrections in relation to mercury readings.
Pleased that WS included François Arago's lectures in his compilation. Believes the Italian edition could have been better edited. Remarks on the Leviathan problem.
Suggests ways of eliminating transmission of vibration to a piece of sensitive equipment.
Regrets that he thinks the faith of the public in astronomy should be shaken by the errors of J. C. Symons. Gives the theory of the rotation of the moon.
Thanks for engravings of Saturn and Jupiter; would like to see an astronomical picture book produced.
Thanks for photograph of the moon.
Offers AD a puzzle and JH's solution to AD's problem about a body revolving in the evolute of an ellipse. On sending Francis Baily's correspondence to Greenwich.
Reading proofs of JH's Essays Q. E. R.; working on an article on meteorology.
On some odd results JH has arrived at about P. S. Laplace's barometric formula.
On magic squares.
Regarding the possibility of decimal coinage. Washes his hands of adjectives expressed in algebraic form. Has received good news from India.
Comments about JH's ancestor, Hercules, and replies to S. J. Loyd's (1st Baron Overstone) queries [see AD's 1857-10-9].
A proposition in perspective, and some nonsense.
Sends reports about sons Alexander and John at [Charles] Pritchard's school; there follow a number of minor matters of household information; JH will be very busy in the coming week.
Thanks for having sent various publications; believes that the Academy's intention has been to send JH complete series; states which issues JH has not received.
Invites FM to visit him at Collingwood on his return trip to Paris from the B.A.A.S. meeting in Dublin.