Is applying for professorship at Addiscombe Military College and would like JH's support.
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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.
Is applying for professorship at Addiscombe Military College and would like JH's support.
Has been ill, which accounts for the delay in answering his letter. Has applied for the position at Addiscombe. Remarks concerning volcanoes and his own and JH's queries regarding them.
Was pleased to obtain JH's news regarding ice. Agrees with him about metals of alkalis in the earth. Further regarding volcanoes.
Sends articles he has written for the English Encyclopaedia. Still awaiting results of the professorship at Addiscombe.
Would like to pass on JH's views on ice to A. R. Abbott, who is giving a lecture on glaciers at the Friend's Institute. Remarks on storms. Confusion of Thomas Young's views with JH's. Regarding JH's paper on earthquakes and volcanoes.
Gassiot has just informed him of his experiments on the sun's light. Importance of this in relation to present theories.
Sends his article on the sun and the British Almanac for 1865. Regarding various current theories relating to the sun. The professorship he applied for has not materialized.
[John] Davy's letter mentioning JH is published in the current P.M. Regarding JH's and Mr. Magers's psychic views.
Regarding certain passages in JH's Cape Observations.
His views regarding the constitution of the sun coincides with JH's. Is giving a lecture for J. P. Gassiot in which he would like to quote some of JH's views.
Sending comparison to Almanac of 1866. Concerning meteorites. Now principal librarian and professor at the Institution.
Has answered Smith's request by letter this evening. Thanks for the specimen of the meteorite.
Sending the syllabus of Mr. Ellis's lecture. Has sent to JH's son [Alexander] a paper on meteors, which contains his views in cosmical philosophy. Elected Laurence Parsons (4th Earl of Rosse) to the R.S.L. yesterday.
Giving some lectures and asks JH for permission to quote from his writings
Regarding Dr. Thomas Andrews's Bakerian lecture and the gaseous and liquid states. Comments on this and his previously stated theory. Has seen Alexander Herschel and thinks he should receive more credit for his work on the Meteor Committee. Scientific education of young people.
Encloses copies of papers referred to in his previous letter.
JH criticizes [Robert] Mallet's views on the nature of earthquakes and the upheaval of the earth.
Sorry to hear of his illness. Answers to his queries regarding the colloid state of ice. Cannot agree about metals of alkalis and earths uncombined in the earth.
Calling his attention to one of his own articles. Concerning Mr. Magers and Roger Boscovitch's views. Concerning Magellanic Clouds.
On the physical structure of the sun's surface.