Intends applying for the chair of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork and would be grateful for a testimonial from 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.
Intends applying for the chair of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork and would be grateful for a testimonial from JH.
Thanks for the gift of his poem; it has afforded him great pleasure. Is starting on a tour of South Wales and the West Country.
Is grateful for a copy of 'Spaziergang' in Latin verses. Envies JH's varied accomplishments. Fourth edition of his Siluria will be issued in October. Relates how James Croll was appointed a geological surveyor in Scotland.
Thanks JH for translation of [Friedrich] Schiller's 'The Walk.' Reform bill will again be before the House tomorrow. Denounces mischief of the Radicals.
The Berlin Academy has decided to publish Charles Rümker's observations, thus removing the problem from the hands of the B.A.A.S. [see JH's 1866-7-13].
[Charles] Darwin and [William] Fairbairn have started a certificate describing JS's contributions to science. Asks whether JH would sign it.
In London for a short time. Wants to meet JH and will come to see him the following day.
Thanks JH for a 'corrected edition of Deambulatz.' [?] Angelo Secchi has been at Cambridge. Is making composite photographs showing the activity of the sun and planets in the last year.
Regarding earth currents and galvanic registers. Results of recent experiments on these.
Thanking him for sending the translation of Friedrich Schiller [Schillers Spaziergang, Translated into Latin Verse, 1867].
Many thanks for the Latin translation of Frederick Schiller's poem. Comments on various points of poetry. Further about the Pascal-Newton letters. Regarding William Pearson and the founding of the R.A.S.
Further concerning the Newton-Pascal letters. Comments on the various line endings for poetry. Why in Runic Almanacs the days of the week begin with Monday.
Regarding David Brewster and the inaccuracies in his life of Isaac Newton.
Portrait of William Herschel will be returned after Second National Portrait Exhibition closes 31 Aug. Gratitude for JH's loan.
Expresses thanks for JH sending JH's translation of Homer's Iliad. Endorses JH's use of hexameter verse. Looks forward to reading it.
Engaged in bringing out a new edition of A. J. Fresnel's works and has some queries.