Met Mr. Smedley a few days ago and the latter has the impression that JH is to write the article on Heat for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. Comments on this and wonders if he can request the articles from JH. Sends letter via Charles Babbage.
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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.
Met Mr. Smedley a few days ago and the latter has the impression that JH is to write the article on Heat for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. Comments on this and wonders if he can request the articles from JH. Sends letter via Charles Babbage.
Hears a letter from JH has miscarried. Anxious that JH should write an article on Heat as FL is too busy.
Their letters have missed more than once, and JH's last letter is now at the Return Office. Would like to see this letter to learn JH's views on the article on Heat. Gives own ideas how article should be written, too busy himself, so hopes JH can write it, or does he know any other person?
Sending this note to inform JH that he began his own serpentine paper on Friday and next Friday intends to read JH's paper on Predazzo. Would like to go over the paper with JH beforehand. Intends to publish his own paper in Brewster's Journal. Can JH meet CL here Wednesday morning?
Believes that JH is acquainted with R. I. Murchison, who is to accompany CL to see the works of M. I./I. K. Brunel's Thames tunnel, after they have gone through JH's paper. Would JH like to accompany them?
Arrived here yesterday with the Murchisons and starts tomorrow for the Vicentini. Would welcome JH's advice on what to see and read when in Sicily.
Expressing his gratitude for the kindness received from JH while staying in England. Thanks for the Memoir he has received.
Is just about to publish the 20th number of the Mathematical Repository in which he would like to include a short biography of William Herschel. Can JH supply him with an account of his father, and also inform him if a portrait of Sir William has been published?
Finds that the crystal of 'Fish-eye-stone' came from Sweden and was attached to a mass of oxydulous iron. Hopes that JH receives this information in time for his paper.
JH's geological specimen is a piece of granular quartz, found in great quantities in Berks, Wilts, and Herts. JH promised to show him some of the garnets found by [J. S.?] Henslow in Anglesea.
Invitation to JH to meet some friends of AL's.
Something is going badly. Comments on volcanic action observed, and on having met some English acquaintances of JH. [Many parts of this letter illegible.]
Reports the death of Giuseppe Piazzi.
A notice of meeting of the R.S.L. committee to improve glass.
Sends JH a sketch of an experiment already made.
Talks about the glass experiments of John Dollond and Mr. Stanwood[?].
Describes glass experiments he is performing.
Would like to establish himself in England for the purpose of making high quality glass using a process developed by his father [P. L. Guinand].
Is still looking for suitable people to work in the glass experiments.
Comments on use of muriate of lime on plants. Also on existence of unexplained bands on film and on presence of red light beyond normal spectrum with light originating from certain sources.