Believes he has discovered a second satellite of Neptune; gives readings.
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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.
Believes he has discovered a second satellite of Neptune; gives readings.
Sends on announcement of 'new planet Parthenope' from Annibal de Gasparis at Naples.
Acknowledges receipt of JH's 1850-5-28; GA will pass on the news to some others.
Is just leaving for France, and has time only for a few thoughts in response to GA's 1850-8-18.
Congratulates JH on his important new position [Mint]; wants to start seriously to prepare for July 1851 solar eclipse [see JH's 1850-8-18 or later].
Will be very busy learning his new job for a while, so GA should start working with other committee members; JH makes some suggestions about eclipse observation [see GA's 1850-12-14].
Acknowledges the receipt of JH's suggestions [see JH's 1850-12-15]; urges JH to consider going to Norway or the Baltic to see the eclipse.
Apologizes for not being at home when JH called, and thanks JH for his family's kindness to GA's children during the past winter.
A note accompanying a letter that seems to come from François Arago, and that seems to JH to show a disturbed state of mind; asks GA for his opinion.
Is confident the letter [see JH's 1850-12-15], which is supposedly from François Arago, is a forgery.
Committee set up by the B.A.A.S. to consider methods of observing the forthcoming eclipse of the sun; observations on this.
Asks GA for help in identifying an astronomer for the observatory at Trivandrum, India.
Comments on a number of possibilities for the post at Trivandrum [see JH's 1850-3-20].
Thanks GA for his 1850-4-1, and provides details of a likely candidate.