Inviting JH to his house if he attends the meeting of the B.A.A.S. Proposes to visit JH in London.
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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.
Inviting JH to his house if he attends the meeting of the B.A.A.S. Proposes to visit JH in London.
Observations on the work of S. D. Poisson and P. G. le D. Pontecoulant. Is JH's 20-ft. telescope any use for measuring angles and distances? Discussion of solar spots.
Copy of letter to Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland) stating that the Duke's offer of a refracting telescope of great power, to Cambridge Observatory would be a valuable gift. To JH: Remarks on gift of telescope, planet reduction money, and on his geological exploration of the Charnwood Forest.
Has visited Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland) at Buxton, who suggests that JH approaches R. A. Cauchoix for the glass for the new telescope.
Further discussion of the telescope being donated by Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland).
Summary of the letter of same date sent to JH at Slough (HS.1.60).
Has not been requested to settle the affair about Henry Taylor and the Stephen Groombridge business. Would JH send him what he has ready for printing, with directions? Observations on the 4th satellite of Jupiter.
Encourages GA to consider favorably the offer of Hugh Percy [Duke of Northumberland] of donating a telescope to Cambridge Observatory.
A note along with letters from R. A. Cauchoix, the telescope maker, and [J. C. Spencer,] Lord Althorp, about the B.A.A.S.; JH is trying to clean up observation reports before leaving for the Cape.
Further about the telescope to be donated by Hugh Percy [see JH's 1833-8-15], along with a promise that JH will write to R. A. Cauchoix about the telescope.
More about arrangements with R. A. Cauchoix and the telescope for Cambridge Observatory; JH also comments on the state of his nebula work.
Hugh Percy has approved the arrangements, which JH had made with R. A. Cauchoix [see JH's 1833-9-29].