Mentions some chemical experiments on which JH has worked; hopes EC will exhibit his experiments for R.S.L.
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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.
Mentions some chemical experiments on which JH has worked; hopes EC will exhibit his experiments for R.S.L.
Describes chemical experiments carried out by JH on corundum. Attempts to interpret these experiments.
Praises EC for 'amazing experiments' published in [William T.] Brande's journal [Quarterly Journal of Science and Art]. Wishes EC's publication had appeared in R.S.P.T. Has an experiment to show EC.
Thanks EC for his interest in a paper JH submitted to the Geological Society. JH has come to question some of his observations and to recognize that J. J. Berzelius anticipated JH's recognition of the acid nature of silica.
Reports on some chemical results obtained by JH.
Sending EC a specimen that W. H. Wollaston describes as 'the most intractable substance by fire' he has ever seen. Discusses its properties and possible chemical composition.
Returns with thanks EC's specimen of Island Crystal. Also discusses specimen of titanium lent by EC.