Thanking him for his paper on telescopes. Observations of JH's semicircular map of the world.
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.
Thanking him for his paper on telescopes. Observations of JH's semicircular map of the world.
Is obliged for the maps and articles on physical geography. Comments on the heights of various mountains and encloses a list of queries.
Wishes to apply for a position as professor and would like JH's recommendation.
Is grateful for his prompt reply and kind remarks about his own qualifications [i.e., JB's].
Returning the corrected proof of the note to be added to one of JH's papers.
Announcing the sudden death of his wife. The Taylors are with him.
Please accept his thanks for his article on telescopes. Comments on JH's views. Would like 50 copies of the article to distribute to opticians.
Thanks for copy of JH's ['Remarks on Colour-Blindness' (1859-60)].
[It having been asserted in the Times that the Russians have not communicated about the climate at Pekin], JH notes that in fact wonderfully detailed meteorological observations for Pekin from 1850 to 1855 have been widely distributed by the Russians.