Letter of introduction for some friends of JH, to FA in Bonn.
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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.
Letter of introduction for some friends of JH, to FA in Bonn.
Has passed on the papers sent by FA. Tables of chief stars. Observations on FA's letter of 28 October 1842 [see FA's 1842-10-28]. Sends observations of Orionis.
Thanking him for his Uranography; comments on this.
JH, president of R.A.S., is writing to FA to discover the quantity of results that FA wants to present for printing.
Further to reception of results from FA [see JH's 1848-12-23].