Has been carrying out a series of experiments with spiders immersed in acids and finds their bodies are not protected in any way. Has also been experimenting with elastic tissues to see if there is a change of temperature.
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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 been carrying out a series of experiments with spiders immersed in acids and finds their bodies are not protected in any way. Has also been experimenting with elastic tissues to see if there is a change of temperature.
Refers JH to page 18 of memoir of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, in which JJ, using 'the magnetic electrical machine,' succeeded in proving 'that heat may be generated by mechanical power without accompanying chemical change.'