Was pleased to receive JH's letter and criticisms on his book Le ciel. Comments on some of JH's criticisms.
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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.
Was pleased to receive JH's letter and criticisms on his book Le ciel. Comments on some of JH's criticisms.
Sends the first volume of his memoir on the Perse. Has contacted Jacques Babinet regarding experiments on variations of gravity. Comments on the work of the various researchers in this field.
An invitation to a meeting.
Enclosing a paper for JH's perusal.
Believes that John Davy's letter to the Philosophical Magazine was suggested by James South. To defend himself, CB now needs JH's permission to publish some of their correspondence.
H. J. Hollier asked General Reversionary and Investment Company (Anderson's clients) for another advance from Hollier Trust Fund. As trustee, JH is asked to sign and return enclosed receipt.
Encloses JL's weather observations over past year. Asks if uniform style exists for all observers to follow. JL's views about moon's effect on climate. Wishes Robert FitzRoy would abandon weather prognostication and concentrate on valuable daily reports.
Enclose table of GP's and JP's observations, inspired by JH's article in Jan. 1864 Good Words. Apologize for disputing JH's authority, but GP and JP found that full moon has no influence on local cloud cover.
Sends paper on earth's temperature for JH's opinion.
Offers JS's wind observations, as requested in JH's ['Weather and Weather Prophets' (1864)] in Good Words.
Encloses WW's table of meteorological data for Jan.-Dec. 1864, made in response to JH's claim that full moon influences cloud cover.
Discusses translating the Iliad. Discusses Emile Gautier's theory of the maculae, which does not seem to explain what they see.
Sends a proof of an engraved print.
Requests JH's reflections on the deceased Wilhelm Struve. Discusses making of telescope object glass. Continues work on the optical tables.
Sends, at the request of William Thomson, articles from North British Review on the topic of energy.
Will distribute copies of a JH paper.
[John] Davy's letter mentioning JH is published in the current P.M. Regarding JH's and Mr. Magers's psychic views.
Has to forward a copy of the Golden Calendar to him; how shall he send it?
Is sending JH and Lady Herschel a collection of photographs JC has taken. Discusses them, and her philosophy of photography. Thanks JH for being 'her first Teacher.'
Is grateful for JH's extracts from Homer. Hopes JH will publish before he has finished all the translation. Will write again soon.