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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.
Treasury commissioners received report on JH's and Henry Rich's investigation of claim by Henry Bingley for compensation due to abolition of office of Queen's assay master. Treasury grants Bingley annual pension of £750.
Treasury commissioners approve payment of £300 to son of Henry Bingley for work performed as probationary assayer.
Treasury commissioners approve compensation by Paymaster-general to G. F. G. Mathison for loss of earnings due to abolition of refinery at Mint.
Treasury commissioners approve compensation claims for equipment belonging to company of Moneyers and to G. F. G. Mathison.
Appears to be presenting YV's calculations for the orbits of double stars. [Much of this letter is illegible.]
Will visit JH at Mint today. [JH annotation: JA wanted to know if government persists in plan to terminate Moneyers' contract.]
Asks for appointment with JH tomorrow.
Junior Moneyers Edward Enfield and Robert Rintoul decline offer from Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] for new positions in reorganized Mint. It would put them into inferior status.
Forwards letter signed by all Moneyers, with assurance that they will cooperate with Treasury plan.
Will take JH's note to Mint tomorrow.
Moneyers are extremely anxious. Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] announced in Apr. 1850 that government would abolish Company of Moneyers, whose contract terminated on 13 May. But still there is no arrangement for compensation.
Thanks for JH's assurance that arrangements for Moneyers' compensation will soon be made. Hopes that government will be liberal.
Moneyers still have not received confirmation about compensation for loss of their centuries-old contract. Urges JH to arrange speedy settlement.
Did JH ever report Moneyers' situation to Treasury? Or are JH and [Henry] Rich still giving it 'consideration'?
Thanks JH for offer to relieve Moneyers of responsibility for coinage, but Moneyers would rather have some information about what Treasury is planning to do with them.
Moneyers will stop Mint operations next Thursday [10 July]. But do not expect Moneyers to leave if compensation for their machinery, tools, and lost income has not been settled by then.
Requests copy of Treasury's minutes relating to Moneyers' claims for compensation.
Evaluation of Moneyers' tools and machinery will be completed by Monday. Asks for written assurance that Treasury will pay Moneyers what Mr. Richards, the evaluator, determines their equipment to be worth.
Sends deciphered code. Explains how CB solved it. [CB note dated 24 Mar. 1846: Technique for deciphering code.]
Cambridge University Commissioners meet tomorrow.