Wishes to resign from the secretaryship of the Astronomical Society.
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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.
Wishes to resign from the secretaryship of the Astronomical Society.
Regarding the method of dispatch of papers for foreign members.
Regarding the tables. Would like to see J. J. Littrow's observations. Regarding the printing of various papers in the memoirs.
Further regarding the transmission of papers abroad. Encloses a copy of his own paper on the formula of J. J. Littrow. Astronomical matters.
Has been absent and is sending letter he found on return, and a copy of his own remarks on J. J. Littrow's formula. Regarding the best method of procuring the Memoirs. Can lend him a copy of W. T. Brande's Journal if he would like it.
Forgot to mention it last time they were together that another mammoth has been found at Trumpington. This agrees with G. C. L. D. Cuvier's theories. Regarding the ore JH has just analyzed.
Thanks for his kind note. Mr. Harrison wishes him to prepare a paper for the R.S.L. Will find his experiments continued in the next number of Thomson's Annals. As soon as his blow pipe is repaired he will let him know.
Returning sincere thanks for the memorial inscribed with the name of JH's illustrious father. It rests with JH and his companions how posterity will judge the present age.
Has received the first book of the Memoirs of the Astronomical Society but had to pay duty on the packet.
Thanks him on behalf of the Astronomical Society for his Histoire de l'astronomie moderne. Gives details of a paper on Arabic manuscripts in the Cambridge Philosophical Transactions. Have D. F. J. Arago and J. N. Nicollet received his letter?
Gratitude from Imperial Academy of Sciences for copy of first volume of Astronomical Society's 'Transactions.' Please send future volumes to Mr. Dubatchevski, Prussian consul-general in London. Sent packet to H. J. Walbeck at Åbo.
Sends first volume of Astronomical Society's Transactions and JH's paper on aberrations ['On the Aberrations of Compound Lenses.' 1821]. Asks for geodesical results at Ã…bo.
Received JH's letter [29 Apr. 1821] with 'Memoirs of Astronomical Society' and observations of recent solar eclipse. Has not published eclipse calculations. Convinced that moon's diameter is accurately determined. Latitudes, longitudes for sites in Finland. 1820-22 observations from Ã…bo. Design of new Ã…bo observatory. New instruments from Munich.
Board of Longitude reluctant to pay for new building at James South's unless South and JH agree to place their observations at Board's disposal.
Next meeting of Board of Longitude.
Fears JH misunderstood TY's remark about the injustice of James South's accusation regarding Nautical Almanac. TY was not trying to provoke South's hostility. Sends 'Schumacher's No. 10' for JH's perusal.
Asks JH to check accuracy of Nautical Almanac entry for Jupiter's satellites III and IV on 20 Aug. 1819. Thanks for JH's note, but tell James South 'he is bound to give his reasons....'
Has no errands for JH in Holland or Flanders. Asks for details on JH's and Charles Babbage's method of determining heights by barometrical observations. Hopes to use this to confirm TY's method by 'my formula deduced from refraction.'
Thanks JH for the letter informing FZ of his nomination to the Astronomical Society. Describes how JH can send packages to Geneva via the British Consul.
EW and daughter look forward to visiting Slough on Monday with Mr. Beckwith.