When on board the Excellent at Portsmouth he was deafened by the firing of a gun and has since suffered from 'singing' in his ear. Can JH recommend a relief? His daughter would like an engraving of 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.
When on board the Excellent at Portsmouth he was deafened by the firing of a gun and has since suffered from 'singing' in his ear. Can JH recommend a relief? His daughter would like an engraving of JH.
François Arago has communicated JH's letter informing him that UL has been awarded the Copley Medal.
Is pleased with the arrangements for the forwarding of his medal. Is sending for the R.S.L. five examples of his researches.
Thanks for his letter and the enclosure of Dr. Andrew Smith. Will now write to C. R. Darwin. Can now wait on the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Essentially agrees with JH's plan for distribution of the star catalogues [see JH's 1846-11-18].
JH must inform Lt. Dayman of the actinometer observations to be done. Thanks JH for his actions regarding the Royal Medal. Wants to show Lord Angbury[?] a copy JH's letter.
U. J. J. Leverrier has written and asked that JH receive the [R.S.L.] medal for him.
Elated that WH's account of the generation of an ellipsoid is an original result.
Lunar model will be placed in Somerset House.
Sends communication from R.A.S.
Regarding F. W. Bessel's table for the Huygenian satellite. On early chronology.
Regarding Johann Lamont's numbers.
Has forwarded JH's letter to U. J. J. Leverrier. Thanks that the time has come for an analysis of the work of William Herschel.
Regrets his lateness in writing his request, but would JH write an obituary notice of F. W. Bessel? Does not expect it to be ready before the Anniversary meeting.
Gives comparisons between some of Wilhelm Struve's observations of double stars and his own. Would like to purchase JH's lens if he does not require it himself. Regrets the weather was so bad when JH's daughters visited him.
Is grateful for the lens JH sent. Puzzled by the discrepancies in JH's results. They were pleased to receive his children.
Could he help with respect to the readings for the satellite of Saturn?
Has been planning the new duties for officers of the R.A.S. now that Francis Baily is dead. Hopes JH will consent to become president now, in order to give the prestige of the Society a boost.
Informs JH about WW's forthcoming collection of hexameter verse translations. Laments that the discovery of the new planet [Neptune] did not occur at Cambridge.
Suggests final revisions to JH's hexameter translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.' Informs JH of the other authors of verses in the volume.