Has no means of knowing what course the University of Cambridge will take in the event of the resignation of James Challis. Hopes that RC will not cease from his astronomical labors.
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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 no means of knowing what course the University of Cambridge will take in the event of the resignation of James Challis. Hopes that RC will not cease from his astronomical labors.
Sends a work on physical geography in return for a receipt of some lines of poetry.
Thanks GD for memoir on the subject of geological transformations.
Thanks for pictures of Mars; speculates on the atmospheres of some planets.
Raised from his lethargy by the appearance of the comet; comments on the nature of the sun; can AD recommend a book on surveying for JH's son John.
Regarding the question of forged documents by the Indigo planters of Bengal and the advantages they hold over the Ryotts, who cannot read or write.
AW's 'Thaumatrope' is ingenious, but applies only to periodic movement. JH aims to reproduce non-periodic motion. Commends AW's suggestion to employ government schoolmasters as meteorology observers.
Sending first 64 pages of JH's Physical Geography with some insertions and corrections. Requests proofs in duplicate.
Asks that various papers by JH be sent along with the R.S.P.T. to four foreign locations.
Expresses thanks for sending Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge, a report by A. D. Bache, and materials from the American Philosophical Society.
Thanks WJ for his papers on clouds [see WJ's 1861-7-21]. JH had not seen these, but praises their contents.
Writes to inform son John of the sudden death [after only a very brief illness] of John's sister Margaret Louisa. [The letter is quiet and accepting, praising God for the happy and blameless life that 'Looey' had led and what joy she had brought to the family.]
Discusses the theory of rainbow formation, especially for rainbows seen as reflections from bodies of water.
Reports JH's observations of a comet [Comet II Tebbutt ?] first seen from England ca. 29 June 1861. Remarks that it 'far exceeded in brightness any comet I have before observed.'
JH's 'scientific activity' has long been at zero, but JH has of late been preparing a lecture on the sun and translating Homer's Iliad.
Asks WW's opinion of JH's hexameter translation of the opening section of Homer's Iliad. Comments on the value of hexameter verse.
More on lacunae in JH's set of MF's writings [see JH's 1838-10-3].
On the effect of the earth passing through a comet's tail.
Comments on whether a rainbow could be reflected to the eye from water. Comets approach quite near to the earth on many occasions. Regarding the development of South America.
Thanks for RF's daily barometric reports in the Times; comments on RF's investigation of the 'Royal Charter' storm.