Thanks for letter and also for the experiments suggested. Has been working on the tension spark. Would be pleased to show JH or Charles Babbage the battery at any time.
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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.
Thanks for letter and also for the experiments suggested. Has been working on the tension spark. Would be pleased to show JH or Charles Babbage the battery at any time.
W. R. Grove and JG would like an opportunity of discussion with JH on a scientific matter. Will visit him if necessary.
Regrets he was unable to see JH when in town last week. Outlines the scheme for a new club.
Thanks for his note. Is writing to remove any misconceptions JH may have about the proposed new club. Michael Faraday will be joining on condition that there will be no dinners.
Meeting for the formation of a new club took place last Monday. Gives list of persons who attended. To be called the Philosophical Club. Outlines its rules and regulations.
Will forward JH's note. Is pleased he will be joining the new club. Wishes him happiness in his retirement.
Is grateful for his prompt reply to his request for friend to visit the Mint.
The Kew Committee has requested estimates from Thomas Cook[e] and Andrew Ross for an instrument to carry out JH's suggestions. Is grateful for these suggestions.
Has been trying to obtain information on JH's query, which accounts for the delay in replying to his letter. Would like to show him his own experiments with electricity in a vacuum should he come to town.
Would like JH to read the enclosed and if agreeable, to add his name to those supporting the scheme [Scientific Relief Fund].
Would like to add JH's name to the first published list [of Scientific Relief Fund]. Regarding donations to the fund.
Called at Burlington House and sees that more subscriptions have been added to the fund.
Sending him [Balfour] Stewart's certificate in the hopes that he will add his name to it. Hopes to show him his experiments when he has the time.
Many thanks for his reference. Will check it.
B.A.A.S. has announced its intention of giving up Kew Observatory. What does he think of the possibility of the R.S.L. taking it over for Magnetic Observations? Sends a copy of the Kew report, also a copy of a letter from [Balfour] Stewart.
Is obliged for his comments on the future of Kew Observatory. They differ from the others received, but they will be read out. Has he ever thought of publishing his reports to the R.S.L.? Thinks it would be a good idea if they could be published.
His object in suggesting that JH's reports should be purchased was to preserve them from oblivion.
William Parsons (3rd Earl of Rosse), Edward Sabine and a few members of the Philosophical Club are coming to JG's house on Monday, and it would give much pleasure if JH would join them.
Asks JG to allow JH to join the Philosophical Club [see JG's 1847-4-17] on a trial basis for a year or two.
Thanks for his valuable paper on galvanic stratification. Hopes to meet him at the B.A.A.S. meeting at Leeds. Encloses some copper salts and would be grateful for his comments on them. Hopes his health has improved.