Has discovered another new planet [Flora]. 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.
Has discovered another new planet [Flora]. Gives readings.
Thanks for the neat name and symbol he has given to the new planet; thinks H. C. Schumacher has read Hora for Flora. The next one will have to be called Thetis as so many have suggested that name.
Sends his first approximation of the elements of the asteroid Flora.
Thanks for his visit to Collingwood. Regarding JH's great work. Would like to exhibit them to the King of France.
Thought his letter had miscarried. Thanks for the gift of his recently published work [Cape Results]. Will be glad to supply any information from his own work on comets, which he hopes to send in the course of a few days. Is studying U. J. J. Leverrier's method of development by elimination.
One of GN's relatives, Henry Bunbury, is writing a book on the Cape and would like information on the educational system. Has advised Bunbury to write to JH. Would like a copy of the speech JH made at Cambridge in which he praised GN's government at the Cape. Comments on the present sorry state at the Cape.
Comments on astronomical symbols, and position of camera when photographing buildings.
Francis Beaufort is on leave. Does JH know of Beaufort's intentions regarding instruments assigned to [William] Mann, who departs aboard Arab in two days?
R.S.L. committee for distribution of star catalogs should notify H. C. Schumacher of its work. Ordered additional copies to meet requests by foreign corresponding members. Deciding whom to include on distribution list. Concern by Treasury that distribution not be done for profit. Encloses letter from F. G. W. Struve.
Problems with expensive postage for [W. S.] Stratford's notices could have been avoided if these had been sent to R.S.L. for mailing. Explains R.S.L. system for foreign mailings. Believes that council's list of recipients for star catalogs should include many institutions that are not associated with observatories. Advises sending more copies to French institutions. Problems at Paramatta Observatory.
R.S.L. policy for paying postage on scientific communication by members to and from foreign correspondents. Addresses of proposed recipients for Cape Results. ES's illness and problem with eyes.
Suggests alteration in list of observatories that JH sent to W. S. Stratford. Advises JH to include private astronomers on list also. News of [Elizabeth] Baily. Needs to borrow Francis Baily's apparatus for measuring length.
In Francis Beaufort's absence, AM is trying to clarify the matter of an astronomical instrument, apparently obtained from George Merz & Son.
The refractor [see GM's 1846-2-12] has now been shipped, and the account is rendered. As well, GM provides two pages of instructions about setting up the telescope.
About the eye's means of adjusting in vision; asks JH's permission to dedicate AS's writings on vision to JH.
Further discusses the translation of [Alexander von] Humboldt's Cosmos [see RS:HS 15.207].
Communicates with others JH's choice of name for new planet [Iris]. Sends position of Hawkhurst Church tower obtained from map department. Describes rainy-day eclipse and reactions to it.
Hopes JH will attend the November R.A.S. meeting to stress the importance of recording solar observations [drawings of sunspots]. On J. R. Hind's work. Says Hind is not strong enough for the work he gets through. Cannot find G. Schwinck's address; suggests contacting H. C. Schumacher.
Describes the funeral of James MacCullagh; mystified why he committed suicide.
Is prepared to report on GA's trip to see Pulkowa Observatory, if JH does not need the meeting time [see JH's 1847-10-28].