Note accompanying JH's obituary notice of William Whewell.
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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.
Note accompanying JH's obituary notice of William Whewell.
Wrote to G. G. Stokes and agreed to seek the permission requested by R.S.L. Will arrange for personal interview with Stokes. Is this 'independent of [Charles] Tennant's proposal'? Outlines survey plans if given charge of large instrument.
Response to a letter from JH to G. G. Stokes [1867-5-5] seen by GA, on the problem of the effect of the telescope on illumination from a light source, especially related to a solar eclipse.
Returns JH's letter from G. G. Stokes about eclipse spectroscopy; GA has written to Stokes as well and encloses a copy of this letter.
Is assisting in communication between G. G. Stokes and GA, about stereoscopic observation of eclipses; JH is not mobile enough to attend the next Board of Visitors meeting.
A note with G. G. Stokes' letter, which JH forgot to enclose [see JH's 1867-5-5].
Comments on the use of different telescopes and their effect on the albedo of the sun, related to solar eclipses [see JH's 1867-5-5].
Would be pleased if after reading BB's paper JH would let BB know any criticisms.
His collection of poetry has made good progress. Outlines the proposed contents of his book. Has not thought of including Latin compositions.
The theorem is one of the consequences of the Julius Plücker system. Comments on JH's proposed method.
[Form letter] At governor's request, sends JH copy of 'Trigonometrical Survey of Southeast Coast of this Colony, by Captain W. Bailey, R.E.'
Invite JH to give lecture series at Literary and Philosophical Society next winter.
Thanks RW for sending him a photograph of RW; sends photograph of JH in return.
Family news; JH is very proud of the accomplishments of young daughter Constance Anne.
News of many of the children, as well as news from London.
The R.S.L. proposes sending telescopic and spectroscopic equipment to India to observe the solar eclipse of 1868. They want to know if son John would be prepared to make the observations. John could use some of his leave time in England to prepare.