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.
Returning the sheets of JH's Cape Results together with a list of errors he has noted. Regarding further reading of star Antares. Thanks for the glass wedges. Hopes weather will improve for JH's journey.
Drawings of comets and sun spots are finished and ready for JH's inspection. Name and address of Mr. Ford, lithographer.
Returns WB's proofs. Compliments WB's successes in meteorology. Barometric waves may be caused by something 'complementary' in opposite seasons or hemispheres.
If given precise instructions, will attempt to obtain the prismatic spectra from Toronto and St. Helena that [Robert] Hunt requested [see Hunt's 1847-3-3].
Attached letter from Edward Sabine [see Sabine's 1847-4-7] will allow RH to communicate directly with Sabine.
Meeting for the formation of a new club took place last Monday. Gives list of persons who attended. To be called the Philosophical Club. Outlines its rules and regulations.
Asks JG to allow JH to join the Philosophical Club [see JG's 1847-4-17] on a trial basis for a year or two.
Will forward JH's note. Is pleased he will be joining the new club. Wishes him happiness in his retirement.