Gives detailed, official, replies to the questions in the magnetic committee circular [see JH's 1844-12-5].
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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.
Gives detailed, official, replies to the questions in the magnetic committee circular [see JH's 1844-12-5].
Will invite G. A. Erman to act as B.A.A.S. commissioner in reduction of 1829 Gaussian constant. Will try to remedy misconceptions of G. B. Airy. T. M. Brisbane will not get involved. Testing new magnetic instrument by Humphrey Lloyd for Arctic expedition. Invite C. F. Gauss to Cambridge.
Received thirteen replies to JH's circular; nine remain unanswered. Suggests printing these, before they are published by B.A.A.S, and distributing these along with second circular by JH.
Asking him to read GA's medal-speech.
Letter to accompany a gift of part of FB's latest work on psychology and knowledge, urging JH to encourage England to study psychology.
James Basire to proceed with copper engraving of JH's 'Chart plate.'
Discourages the continuation of the magnetical and meteorological observations organized by the British.