Cannot explain why GA's letter did not reach JH.
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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.
Cannot explain why GA's letter did not reach JH.
Magnetic questions have been sent to foreign observers but not the British. Why?
Does not believe that a magnetic congress held at this time would be productive or representative; a better job could be done by letter.
Expands on GA's proposed letter writing scheme in place of holding a magnetic congress [see GA's 1844-7-30].
A note accompanying a draft of the report on magnetic observations to date at British stations, and a circular to be sent out.
Has sent on the draft report on magnetic observations to W. S. Stratford for completion [see JH's 1844-10-13].
Accepts JH's invitation to attend the meeting [see JH's 1844-11-1], and offers JH accommodation for the night.
Regarding electrometers and their efficiency.
Further regarding glass for telescope. Postscript relating experiments with electricity.
Has JH received Thomas Maclear's observations on Encke's comet?
Regarding Cape Town telescopes. Has written to Thomas Maclear for observations on Encke's comet.
Regarding JH's forthcoming visit to the Greenwich Observatory.
Further observations on object glasses.
Informing JH that he certainly wrote to him from Limerick.
Regarding F. W. Bessel's letter on the irregularity of proper motion in stars. Is it worth printing Nevil Maskelyne's observations on star places?
Hopes JH will write a memoir of Francis Baily.
Regarding object planes for the telescope.
Giving abridged history of the establishment of the new Board of Visitors to the Royal Observatory. Details concerning the Nautical Almanac. Standards commission.
Regrets his delay in not returning F. W. Bessel's letter. Observations arising from this letter.