Has taken Mary Somerville's manuscript [On Molecular and Microscopic Science] to John Murray. Would like JH's opinion on the scientific value of her manuscript, and if he could assist her in seeing it through the press.
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.
Has taken Mary Somerville's manuscript [On Molecular and Microscopic Science] to John Murray. Would like JH's opinion on the scientific value of her manuscript, and if he could assist her in seeing it through the press.
Agrees that a large part of the hills and valleys are due to tidal action. Comments further on this, especially relating to parts of France. The Hawkhurst lectures have ceased and are not likely to be resumed.
Wonders if mathematical result recently presented by [J. A.] Serret was published many years ago by JH. Comments on recurrence of identical problems in mathematical study.
Thanks JH for promptly signing memorial [see CB's 1866-9-28].