Luke Howard wants to borrow from W. R. Birt JH's German work describing Karl Kreil's 'Barometrograph.'
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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.
Luke Howard wants to borrow from W. R. Birt JH's German work describing Karl Kreil's 'Barometrograph.'
JH criticizes [Robert] Mallet's views on the nature of earthquakes and the upheaval of the earth.
Queries relating to the actinometer. Is a candidate for the position of Lecturer in Chemistry at the East India Company's College.
Concerning exchange of some papers on meteorology.
Part I of Howard's Barometrographia will be ready on Thursday. Is pleased to hear his health has improved. A new edition of JH's Prelim. Discourse would be welcome.
Is sending C. T. Beke's certificate for his signature. Hopes his health is still improving.
Has used JH's writings for his lectures, but would like a simplification of statements dealing with the relation of temperature and pressure in the atmosphere.
Tries to help EB understand JH's writings on meteorology; some comments on location of writings.
Thanks for his suggestion for a lecture on graphical processes. Has had little communication with W. R. Birt since the latter left Kew. Has returned the book by Karl Kreil. Would be pleased to receive the Russian Observations.
Would like JH's support for his application for a position of examiner at East India Company's College. Cannot find out what he has done with Karl Kreil's book. Will send him a copy of his lecture.
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.
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.
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.
Calling his attention to one of his own articles. Concerning Mr. Magers and Roger Boscovitch's views. Concerning Magellanic Clouds.
[John] Davy's letter mentioning JH is published in the current P.M. Regarding JH's and Mr. Magers's psychic views.