Will be very glad to send his paper to the gentlemen concerned, but encloses their names and addresses in case JH wishes to send direct.
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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.
Will be very glad to send his paper to the gentlemen concerned, but encloses their names and addresses in case JH wishes to send direct.
Has had no reply to his letter of 29 March requesting his opinion on a memoir on the solar system. Would be grateful for a reply.
Has sent a collection of his own communications for JH via the Foreign Secretary of the R.S.L.
Was grateful for his kind letter. Doubtless he has received further of his papers by now, including the one on the meteor of Oct. 1863. Sends a note on two lines of the Iliad. Has heard interesting news of Alexander Herschel's labors.
Thanks for his kind note and his tracts on Atoms and Forces. Thinks J. S. Mill's Logic is dangerous. Hopes he will read his book thoroughly and not be too critical of his astronomy.
Sending another copy of a new edition of one of his books. Thinks he stated too strongly his objections to other people's work in his previous edition. Hopes JH will find time to read it.
Thanks for his letter and amusing pamphlet on atoms. Comments on their use of certain terms. Does not think their views differ radically. Thinks heat is a form of movement.
Is very pleased that JH has accepted his little volume. Is sure JH would have made a success of a similar work. Behavior of animals.
Regrets he should have felt so much anxiety about Maria (HH's wife and JH's daughter), but she is progressing well. Have settled down well in their new house.
Is grateful to JH for calling attention to his paper on analysis. Has forwarded his letter to George Boole. Hopes he can quote it in his paper for the Manchester Philosophical Society. Sends a copy of his memoir from the R.S.P.T.
Is writing an article on the life and work of George Boole and would like JH's advice on one of D. F. Gregory's references.
Has not had time to finish the George Boole paper, but the biographical part is in print. Will send him the complete article when it is finished.
Intends applying for the chair of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork and would be grateful for a testimonial from JH.
Is grateful for the pamphlets on Standards and will inform him of any decisions made by the Committee. Comments on the various national standards and systems used.
Thanks for the parliamentary papers, which the Committee have found very useful. Will soon forward his report, which recommends the metric system.
Will give him great pleasure if he can assist J. Parkhurst in any way, but regulations in Messrs. Green's ships will preclude him from their service. Met Margaret Brodie Herschel at the Stewarts a few days ago.
Believes that David Brewster's instrument for examining the lines of the spectrum was based on a formula of JH. Would be pleased if he could supply him with the details and he will then request J. H. Dallmeyer to construct one.
Is grateful for his note. Will take an early opportunity of placing JH's communication before his readers. Curious the oversight should not have been noticed before. Has no more details of David Brewster's instrument.
On Monday he should receive the proof of his communication. Comments on this communication and how it will be presented.
Has read some extracts from JH's Prelim. Discourse and would be grateful if he has an old or soiled copy to dispose of.