Writes to ask GP to help publicize the need for candidates for professorships at the University of Melbourne.
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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.
Writes to ask GP to help publicize the need for candidates for professorships at the University of Melbourne.
Comments on the action of the Council of the Senate of Cambridge University.
Margaret Herschel will avail herself of the offer [see AP's 1850-6-9]; inquires what is happening to the letters from AP's father that JH had given to AP.
Is concerned about the possibility that the observatory at Altona will be discontinued or moved.
Refuses to become a partisan in this conflict [see CB's 1854-12-13]. JH would only become involved if he felt he could be a peacemaker.
The balances in the Mint are not adequate for the work WM wants to do.
Identifies WM as a committee member for the R.S.L.; raises the question of standard weights in relation to weighing gold bullion.
Asks GP to participate in the marriage ceremony of JH's daughter Caroline.
Is trying to arrange for a group of those interested to examine a glass disc.
The Admiralty has given a grant for an astronomical expedition to the Peak of Teneriffe, and JH is now providing a list of details that should be observed in such an expedition.
Humphrey Lloyd wants R.S.L. and B.A.A.S. committees on magnetism to meet together at B.A.A.S. meeting in Leeds. JH suggests inviting Edward Sabine.
Finds no inaccuracies in statement made to TA about Hollier's trust fund. Knows of no incumbrances on reversionary interests of W. H. B. Hollier.
JH's only knowledge of Hollier trust fund was explained in earlier letters. Signs and returns annual report for trust fund.
Names three nephews of Charles Babbage and their financial status relative to Hollier fund, for which JH is trustee.
Quality of silver for use in British coins. Coins issued to colonies.
Suggests change in procedure for 'applicants' to Royal Mint.
Landed estates held in common by Company of Moneyers may affect their claims to compensation.
JH received request for employment from workman employed by JA. Forwards this to JA.
Does not yet have word from government regarding claims for compensation made by Company of Moneyers.
Assurance that JH's lack of response is due not to discourtesy but to lack of information.