Will be out of town for next [R.S.L.?] council meeting. Comments on glass subcommittee report.
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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.
Will be out of town for next [R.S.L.?] council meeting. Comments on glass subcommittee report.
Invites JH to meet H. C. Oersted, Henry Warburton, and Henry Kater at dinner next Wednesday.
Sends drawings associated with WW's paper and passed by [R.S.L.] Council for printing, and memoir from M. A. Pictet.
Invites JH to dinner Saturday to meet J. G. S. Van Breda.
John Pond's last communication to Committee is in press. Save its second printing.
Sir Edward Codrington will take charge of chronometer for Captain Copeland if delivered to Codrington at Portsmouth.
[Charles Babbage] should understand that no effort will be made for 'alien' unless that candidate offers himself. Since William Buckland suggested Babbage for the position, let Buckland take the initiative.
Corrects yesterday's mistake about 'Russian Platina.' It is chemically pure, but mechanically the worst.
Previous engagement prevents WW 'joining the early party.'
Previous engagement prevents WW witnessing experiment of A. M. Ampère tomorrow. Waits for JH's report. Hopes to see JH at [Georges] Cuvier's tomorrow.
Unsure whether WW will be in town to dine with JH Monday.
Encloses paper sent by Mr. Perkins for R.S.L, and impression just received from printer.
Most correct mode of proceeding will be to suppress incorrect corrections and not to give credit to [T. I. M.?] Forster for inferences of [Peter?] Barlow or calculations of WW.