Is grateful for the gift of his Prelim. Discourse. Had to pay 4/8 excess postage.
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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 grateful for the gift of his Prelim. Discourse. Had to pay 4/8 excess postage.
Thanks for the 4/8 postage. Query on William Hopkins's theory of the Earth's formation. Would be grateful for any scientific works.
JH's copy of the Nautical Almanac for 1864 will be forwarded to the R.A.S. J. H. Mädler has solved the problem of one of William Herschel's observations.
Outlining a method for making star maps with a pyramid.
Encloses [a diagram] of the transverse section of the entrance of the Great Pyramid, with details of the travelling platform for making observations.
Grateful for JH's congratulations. News of the education of his own sons. Pleased to hear of Warren de La Rue's success with photographing the pink projections during the total darkness. Recent astronomical observations. News of the Cape Electric Telegraph. Mr. Wollaston (a nephew of W. H. Wollaston) is about to make a survey for the telegraph wire. Gives details of the electric clock in connection with the transit circle.
Will not be able to produce his article in time for the January issue, but could write a much better article on meteorology if given longer, till July.
Circular letter advising of the availability of back copies of various Royal Observatory printed observations.
Regrets that JH's son Alexander is quitting astronomy. Asks JH to support his effort to obtain position at Madras Observatory. Announces first project would be survey of southern heavens in completion of [F. W. A.] Argelander's new atlas.
Supplies what is in effect a testimonial to NP's abilities for use in NP's quest to become director of the Madras Observatory.
Announces success in securing directorship of Madras Observatory, thanks to JH and G. B. Airy. Cannot now change the names for asteroids Hestia or Isis. Asks for suggestions on names in the case of future discoveries.
Congratulates NP on appointment to Madras Observatory. States that he will use both Isis and Hestia nomenclature without misgiving. Furnishes names from Greek mythology for NP to use for asteroid discoveries.
Comments on Jupiter's appearance and on the eclipse photographs [see JH's 1860-8-23].
Tells JH he will search for the requested weather data. Encloses 'Weather Reports in the Newspaper.'
Details of Lady Grey's shipboard affair with the Admiral.
Sends rainfall data. Resigned secretaryship of the Meteorological Society. Discusses possible influence of sunspots on rainfall.
Asks WS opinion of attaining a civil pension for N. R. Pogson in honor of his astronomical accomplishment.
Discusses data gathering from 'the colonies.' Forwards a Scottish publication on meteorology.
Sends more data and papers on meteorological matters. Discusses weather observations by C. P. Smyth.
N. R. Pogson appointed to Madras Observatory. Appointment includes a pension, so a civil pension will not be necessary.