Is having letters regarding 'Southern Telescope' sent to JH. Requests JH's remarks, to be read at committee meeting.
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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.
Is having letters regarding 'Southern Telescope' sent to JH. Requests JH's remarks, to be read at committee meeting.
Asks about precise link between rotation and revolution of satellites, and its relation to belief in existence of God.
Believes that the observations that concern JH [see JH's 1853-2-7] with respect to the moon's orbit do not argue for Venusian effects, but GA finds [G.] Seyffarth's writings disturbing, too.
Will send JH meridian observations that will be published; asks for his advice on them. Applies to government for an equatorial telescope. Discusses Teneriffe site.
Sends photographs of Great Dragon and the Ice Cavern in Teneriffe. Notes that images are finer when glass plates are used.
'Delighted' to hear that JH is in 'such good spirits.' Has been giving regular class lectures.
Nominates Margaret Herschel's nephew for Addiscombe.
Sends JH a copy of the third edition of his Laws of Thought.
Discusses Addiscombe nominations; says he will nominate Margaret Herschel's nephew.
Informing him that William Mann, assistant at Cape Town Observatory, has requested a salary increase, and would JH give his views.
Asks JH to let an examination be made of the standard pound kept at the Royal Mint [see WM's 1853-6-8].
Seeks instructions about return of the measures to the Royal Mint.
Writes to JH to re-arrange a time for a meeting.
Concerning GA's eclipse lecture and [G.] Seyffarth's claims regarding eclipse observations.
Clarifies meeting details [see JH's 1853-2-27].
Is arranging a meeting to seal up and deposit one set of standards [see GA's 1853-6-21].
Drafting the Standards Commission report is taking up all of GA's spare time.
Is very much in favor of JH's coinage ideas [see JH's [1851]-1-4], but thinks they may be too bold.
Wants to visit the Royal Mint; the coinage/weight question is more complex than GA imagined [see GA's 1853-3-15]; seeks JH's opinion on part of a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Seeks JH's approval, and signature, on a paper; does not wish to talk about copper coinage.