Arrangements about meeting JH.
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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.
Arrangements about meeting JH.
The health of Robert Woodhouse is very precarious and wonders if JH would be interested in the Plumian Professorship. Is sure of support.
Further regarding the Lucasian Professorship. Only two candidates left, Charles Babbage and G. B. Airy, and the former is not in a good position. Outlines the duties of the position.
A furnace for glass making is under construction at the Royal Institution.
Awaits JH's instructions on duplicating barometer observations taken at Mt. Etna. Francesco Lunn visits, will verify observations made by MG. MG congratulates JH on the success of his efforts to measure the brightness of light with precision.
Has visited Louvain and also a steam engine factory near Liége. Account of various excursions.
Is sending him a proofsheet of the first of his charts of the zodiac. Does he think the work worthwhile, and is it suitable for printing in the Memoirs?
Attended inquest regarding the 'calamitous' fate of [James] Grahame. Is sending JH inquest report, which contains important information.
Pleased to learn that they share the same view of the reform of chemical nomenclature. Discusses various professorships at Cambridge and the question of who should head the R.S.L. Praises Richard Jones's ideas in political economy.