Informs JH that GA (and his assistants) have been making pendulum observations in a coal pit.
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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.
Informs JH that GA (and his assistants) have been making pendulum observations in a coal pit.
Accepts dinner invitation to meet Mr. [Haufmann?]. Problems with JH's back.
Strong desire for letters. Misses family. Emptiness of 'civilized' life. Encourages IH's expression of feminine feelings. Concern about Napoleon III, England's national debt, and America's 'vain school-boy-ism.'
As directed by Treasury commissioners, in [James] Wilson's letter of 30 Sept. 1854, JH sends draft of royal proclamation, approved by Treasury solicitor, announcing new coins for New Brunswick.
Advises hiring C. W. Goodwin as resident employee.
After 25 years service in Mint, CG is still not eligible for raise. Asks to be considered for position in Die department that will permit increases in salary.
Finally concluding the Melbourne University business by asking for GA's expenses; the money finally came from Australia [see GA's 1854-8-18].
Responds to JH's request [see JH's 1854-10-17].
Describes the Cape Botanical Garden, which is finally opened. Congratulates JH on the marriage of JH's daughter [Caroline Emilia]. Copper mining in the colony successful. Will move to a new cottage.
About JH's social activities in London.
A letter of sympathy for MH, as she and her brother Willy have lost a good friend in Edward Wrench [?].
Will be happy to place his diagrams of the sun at JH's disposal should he wish to include them in the new edition of his book. Gives recent observations made by his Clarke object glass.
Learned to simplify expression for Bernoulli's number B=2n+1 using JH's formula.
Offers improved version of formulas sent in previous letter.
Thanks for sending 4th edition of WC's Physiology [Principles of General and Comparative Physiology, 4th ed., 1854].
Describes the abilities and special interests of JH's son Alexander, who, JH hopes, will enter Trinity College, Cambridge, in Oct. 1855.