Someone has experimented with sound and finds that the pitch of a note is altered when transmitted through solids; is this true in JH's experience? Supposes that Lady Herschel has now returned.
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.
Someone has experimented with sound and finds that the pitch of a note is altered when transmitted through solids; is this true in JH's experience? Supposes that Lady Herschel has now returned.
Comments on fluorescence and the contents of Francis Baily's desk drawer.
Tells AD how to deal with JH's letters to Francis Baily.
Would give him great pleasure to comply with JH's request, but the trees are in the garden of a Mr. Powell.
Is preparing a list of telescopes with their focal lengths and quality, and asks GA to correct JH's list.
Sorry to trouble CD with note today regarding occupying the premises.
Sending FH drawings of sunspots made by W. R. Dawes. Asks FH to inspect them and forward them to R.A.S. secretary R. C. Carrington along with any sunspots drawings made by FH on the same dates.
Of the comings and goings of some of their daughters in London; other family matters, including finances.
Requests that proofs of his paper ['On a New Projection of the Sphere'] be sent to him at 37 Tavistock Place.
Asks that the diagrams alluded to be printed with JH's paper ['On a New Projection of the Sphere'].
Offers to show JH his observatory and the polishing apparatus he uses. Comments on various telescope makers, especially Andrew Ross.
Talks about the death of Elizabeth Baily, and the beauty of the fall flowers; comments on correspondence that has arrived, and includes some family news.
Reports to MH on the contents of Elizabeth Baily's will [JH is given the house in Tavistock Place], and adds some family news, concluding by commiserating with MH's situation.
Mostly news of what JH has been doing the last day or so, including a visit to daughter Caroline, whose daughter is better, and about JH's accommodations and food, together with comments about [William Henry] Fitton.
Writes to JH to propose hiring JH's son Alexander for a year to work in CP's laboratory and make observations in CP's observatory.
Is writing to MH about Charles Pritchard's letter about work for son Alexander [see CP's 1859-11-27]; JH is now asking MH for her thoughts on the matter and adds other possibilities for Alexander. Comments on the superior meat available in London, and on his health.
Asks JH about two publications: [Felix Eberty's anonymous] The Stars and the Earth and J. C. Maxwell's theory of compound colors, WW recommending the latter.
Is a candidate for the position of Principal at St. Andrews United College in succession to David Brewster, who has moved to Edinburgh. Would be pleased to receive a testimonial from JH. Has already received one from Brewster.
Fears his last letter may have gone astray owing to incomplete address. Will send off the photo of the moon on Saturday. Explains what he means by seven days of difference. Has also taken many photographs of the planets, which he will be pleased to send for his perusal.
Was gratified to see his handwriting, and has pleasure in sending the order. Duties were oppressive but have now eased. The Pyx has been delayed for two years but must take place soon.