Would like JH's views on the proposed meeting at York of the Friends of Science (later the B.A.A.S.).
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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.
Would like JH's views on the proposed meeting at York of the Friends of Science (later the B.A.A.S.).
Wanted to read JH's book before writing. Thinks it a useful production and should prove popular. William Fitton has been preparing a statement on the late struggle for the chair, but William Whewell has advised him to withdraw it. Hopes he will receive RJ's book in a fortnight. Comments on this and his recollections.
Is writing to request JH not to let William Fitton know that RJ informed JH about Fitton's statement.
JH's request for one hundred copies of the abstract was discussed at the Geological Society yesterday and it was decided to print the whole paper in the Transactions.
Describes experiment of [Walter] Trevelyan with heated metals and lead, which produced a variety of sounds. New experiment will be described in [David] Brewster's journal.
Thanks Herschel family for their 'kind interest' in her behalf.
Opinion on M. C. T. Damoiseau's theory and tables; worth a medal.
Remarks on Greenwich observations.
Has had many melancholy afflictions since they last met. Would like JH's support for his intended application for Professorship of Mathematics at the forthcoming University of Durham.
Has had great satisfaction in reading JH's book on Natural Philosophy, but would like to correct his statement regarding the date of the introduction of lemon juice as a treatment for scurvy.