Believes that deadlines must be adhered to regarding search for Melbourne University professors [see JH's 1854-7-12]; adds comments on other candidates.
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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.
Believes that deadlines must be adhered to regarding search for Melbourne University professors [see JH's 1854-7-12]; adds comments on other candidates.
Seeks current information about the selection process for the Melbourne University professorships [see GA's 1854-7-15].
Agrees to meeting date [see JH's 1854-8-14].
Responds to JH's interim arrangements [see JH's 1854-8-18].
Agrees that JH should write to the Melbourne University authorities and point out some concerns [see JH's 1854-8-16].
Rumor has it that Australia is short of cash; can only wait and see [see GA's 1854-8-17].
Responds to JH's request [see JH's 1854-10-17].
Appear to be answers to specific queries about examinations and tutors [at Cambridge?].
Invites JH to dine quietly with MS and the [11th] Duke of Somerset [E. A. Seymour], who is in 'delicate health.'
Inviting JH, together with other members of the R.A.S., for dinner on the following day.
Explains and encloses paper on eyeless insects and their situation in caves.
Describes the Cape Botanical Garden, which is finally opened. Congratulates JH on the marriage of JH's daughter [Caroline Emilia]. Copper mining in the colony successful. Will move to a new cottage.
Sends a revision of the weight of the standard pound deposited at the Royal Mint [see JH's 1853-9-9].
Results of observation of transits at Greenwich and Paris.
A note accompanying a letter for T. S. Rice [Lord Monteagle], which JH is to sign and forward.
Encourages JH to view the change being proposed [see JH's 1854-9-6] as an improvement.
Sends on a letter from George Peacock, who is quite opposed to the proposed changes [see JH's 1854-9-6]; GA would be interested in JH's response.
Would like, if he can lay his hands on it, a paper of John Dalton's on the defect of vision.
Will be happy to place his diagrams of the sun at JH's disposal should he wish to include them in the new edition of his book. Gives recent observations made by his Clarke object glass.
Would like his opinion on a divided glass, double image micrometer before he submits it to an optician. George Dollond has lent him some divided glasses of long focus. Would like to borrow G. B. Amici's micrometer if JH could spare it.