Mr. Morris, the Cranbrook carpenter, has the plan and specification ready. Would JH like to see it before sending it to the Admiralty, presumably through Francis Beaufort?
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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.
Mr. Morris, the Cranbrook carpenter, has the plan and specification ready. Would JH like to see it before sending it to the Admiralty, presumably through Francis Beaufort?
Has found that Orionus is a double star. Compares William Lassell's and Wilhelm Struve's observations of various stars.
Admiralty have applied to Mr. Morris for the drawing of the stone pillar for the Cape equatorial by Georg Merz. Suggests that the type in use at Pulkowa be used. Weather prevented outing to Bodiam.
Returning JH's proof sheet with errors noted in pencil. Gives some of his recent observations on the satellites of Saturn.
Has experienced bad weather since the discovery of Saturn's 8th satellite. William Lassell proposes to call it Hyperion. Wishes Starfield Observatory was situated in a clearer atmosphere.
Recently observed Hyperion very faintly. Gives observation and drawings. The recent bad weather has prevented important observations.