[Form Letter] GA's address, as Astronomer Royal, to Board of Visitors. Progress report on F. G. W. Struve's proposal for joint French-English-Belgian triangulation survey.
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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.
[Form Letter] GA's address, as Astronomer Royal, to Board of Visitors. Progress report on F. G. W. Struve's proposal for joint French-English-Belgian triangulation survey.
About some major variations in terrestrial magnetism readings.
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.
Comments on the state of William Whewell's health, and about the theories of E. F. W. Klinkerfüss [see JH's 1866-2-27].
Urges JH to attend the next meeting of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory, especially as GA believes some of the members of the Board do not understand the scientific problem [?].
Circular letter advising of the availability of back copies of various Royal Observatory printed observations.
As GA is about to leave on holiday, he brings JH up to date on the state of the nebula calculations [see JH's 1862-5-28].
Does JH need the original calculation sheets to deal with the errors in the nebula catalogue [see GA's 1863-2-23]?
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.
Provides JH with best definition that GA has available for the gallon [see JH's 1867-11-3], noting that methods for establishing standards are revised, even if the standards supposedly are not.
Writes to acknowledge receipt of letter [see JH's 1864-11-25], but it will take time to work through JH's calculations carefully.
Thanks JH for his useful letter [see JH's 1867-12-2]; it will be of value to the Commission on Weights and Measures.
Thanks JH for his clear letter [see JH's 1867-12-3] about the pound weight standards.
Proposes a principle for the establishment of musical scales to satisfy musicians, not mathematicians, as JH had apparently done.
More on musical scales [see GA's 1868-4-3]; GA here proposes the use of hyperbolic logarithms to help establish the scales.
Comments on Jupiter's appearance and on the eclipse photographs [see JH's 1860-8-23].
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].
Will take into account JH's suggestions [see JH's 1863-2-13] and see where this leads.
Reminds JH that the algebraic formulation of the theory of the achromatic telescope eyepiece was formulated by GA.
Replies to JH about the date of the transit of Mercury [see JH's 1864-1-[26]].