Thanks to JH for the copy of JH's Cape Results.
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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.
Thanks to JH for the copy of JH's Cape Results.
Thanks JH for Cape Results sent through [F. G. W.] Struve. Further grateful for the N. L. Lacaille and Jérôme Lalande works sent to the observatory. Appreciates reduction of the moon results as well as the magnetic observation of 1845. Reveals new development in double star zones[?]. Comments on making magnetic observations.
Will visit JH next week. Describes machine CW will bring to illustrate undulatory theory of light.
Lists seven French and German works [1837-1847] on optical science. Comments on one. Quotes copyright law on reproducing passages from these.
Thanks for JH's candor and observations of W. H. Wollaston. A. L. Wigan revised book [Duality of the Mind (1844)] before death, but revision is still under review. Offensive passages will be removed, and JH's suggestions incorporated.
Delay in printing WK's meteorology paper.
Expresses appreciation for being elected an associate of the R.A.S.
Is William Dawes equatorial telescope available for purchase?
Thanks for his letter concerning L. A. J. Quetelet; trusts he will be able to prepare the article for the Christmas number. Cholera is at Haileybury.
Hopes his paper on L. A. J. Quetelet will be ready for the Easter number. Richard Jones has returned from Switzerland, and dined with Quetelet in Brussels. Has been suffering himself with congestion of the brain and consequently unable to write.
Is much better but has to take care. Francis Jeffrey (Lord Jeffrey) has taken over the editorial duties of the [Edinburgh] Review. Pleased to hear he is working on his paper. Will inquire about the average Englishman. W. H. Sykes and S. D. Poisson have published papers on this subject.
Expects he has received the proofs by now. Is pleased he will review L. A. J. Quetelet's book on probabilities. Returns to Haileybury next month.
Has JH any of his papers he wrote on the micrometrical measures of the double stars as he does not possess the volumes that contain them. Has erected an equatorial for the purpose of measuring the double stars. Gives details.
Regarding the possibility of a new edition of JH's Treatise Astr. originally published in Lardner's Cyclopaedia. Has found it very useful for his students.
B.A.A.S. and Royal Society of Edinburgh have been approached to apply to the government for finance to send an observer and reflector to the Cape Observatory. Does JH think this advisable, with his knowledge of conditions at the Cape?
Pointing out some errors in JH's Outlines Astr.
Thanks for his letter. Was pleased to hear about the corrections. Points out another error in JH's figures in JH's Outlines Astr.
Has received his note enclosing G. B. Airy's paper. Regrets any trouble he may have caused. Sends copies of his own paper for measuring heights by the barometer. Took some observations on the tides at Brodick and comments on William Whewell's statements concerning tides.
Favorable comment from all quarters on JH's latest book of poems. Draws attention to an article on Scottish abbeys and cathedrals. Has just paid his respects to the King [of France], who remembers JH warmly.
Outlining the advantage of a visit to Scotland. Hopes JH will have time to visit Knockspock as some of his friends will be there.