Announces 18 June meeting of Board of Visitors of Royal Observatory at R.S.L. Subject will be proposed grant by [E. A. S. Seymour, 12th] Duke of Somerset to [Peter A.] Hansen.
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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.
Announces 18 June meeting of Board of Visitors of Royal Observatory at R.S.L. Subject will be proposed grant by [E. A. S. Seymour, 12th] Duke of Somerset to [Peter A.] Hansen.
18 June meeting of Board of Visitors of Royal Observatory will begin one hour earlier. Encloses copy of letter of [E. A. S. Seymour, 12th] Duke of Somerset, and response from Astronomer Royal [G. B. Airy].
Regrets delay in paying JH's expenses for visitation of Royal Observatory.
Annual visitation of Royal Observatory by Board of Visitors will be held 6 June.
Has been very busy, which will account for his error. Will adopt JH's plan.