Of family troubles, and Matilda's impending marriage.
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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.
Of family troubles, and Matilda's impending marriage.
As JH has taken so much interest in education at the Cape, he would like some converse with him before drafting the final instructions to Sir G. Napier.
Sending some bulbs of Daubenya in which he believes JH was interested.
Inquires about unusual weather at Cape of Good Hope in late 1836. Was there an epidemic of influenza at Cape early in 1837?
Miss Caroline Herschel has just been elected an honorary member of the Academy. How shall they forward the diploma?
Is interested in meteoric showers and shooting stars. Encloses a letter [Copy preserved at Yale University] to be sent to someone at the Cape for observations from the Southern Hemisphere.
Sends the silver Banksian medal for JH's exhibit of 16 Oct.
Has been considering with Edward Sabine that morning the requirements for the fixed observatories. Gives lists and also estimate of finances required for a three-year period.
Illness forces him to make a quick return home. Agrees with JH that scientific men should act unanimously when approaching government. Thinks the R.S.L. should go along with the B.A.A.S. as well. Hoped to consult G. B. Airy. Will see Edward Sabine to draw up the memorial.
Has just returned from a German tour and has seen JH's letter to Dr. D. MacFarlan. Outlines the procedures that led to JH being proposed as the new Rector of the University. Comments on the illustrations of two of his own works. Resolution passed urging the free examination of foreign astronomical instruments in public institutions.
Informs JH that in a letter to The Times signed by Richard Sheepshanks JH's name appears. JS wants to know if JH is aware of this fact.
Someone has written to The Times as JH's 'champion' and has impugned the conduct of JS towards the R.S.L. To clear his name, JS wants to make public JH's letter to JS of 1826-11-14, which JS quotes.
As JH will not allow the publication of the letter [see JH's 1838-11-24], JS will provide a plain narrative of the facts to justify his conduct.
Prime minister Lord Melbourne [William Lamb] will receive JH's deputation and Chancellor of Exchequer [Thomas Spring-Rice] whenever convenient.
B.A.A.S. requests that JH head a committee to work on the reduction of observations of N. L. Lacaille's stars. G. B. Airy and Thomas Henderson will also be assigned to the committee.
The Standards Commission will need to meet soon; JH is asked to indicate most convenient, and most inconvenient, days. [See GA's 1838-6-9].
Trying to organize a meeting time for the Standards Commission that will suit everybody; GA wants to make very few changes in the standard relationships [see JH's 1838-11-18].
A notice of meeting of the Standards Commission.
Grateful for permission to use JH's work on sound for the dictionary [see RS:HS 14.333]. Suggests JH write a synopsis.
Humphrey Lloyd will attend the meeting [announced in ES 1838-10-24].