About plant seeds sent by JH from the Cape, WT having sent him some Mexican seeds in return. Halley's Comet only clearly seen on two nights.
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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.
About plant seeds sent by JH from the Cape, WT having sent him some Mexican seeds in return. Halley's Comet only clearly seen on two nights.
Has communicated information from JH about JH's aunt Caroline to Mary Baldwin. Mary Baldwin has decided to go to visit Caroline Herschel.
Tells JH about artifact exhibition AS has set up, and about preparation for publication of some astronomical observations.
More about lack of success of exhibition, and about publication of observations [see AS's 1837-8-27].
Thanks for kind thoughts JH sent, after a difficult time about the Kaffir wars.
Note accompanying copy of dispatch relating to Kaffir wars.
Encloses list of subscriptions raised to offset debt incurred by John Fairbairn [Editor of Commercial Advertiser] in law actions brought by [John?] Chase. Desires JH's support.
Has JH's letter and check. Wants to avoid improper use of JH's name. Sent list of first names and contributions to John Fairbairn. List will be returned to JR and then sent to JH.
Wants JH's opinion of what to do with the subscription list. Will wait to proceed until he has an answer.
Discusses legal problems of the Commercial Advertiser. Has rewritten the list of subscribers. Sends documents to JH for approval. JH's response is included. JH states that slight alterations of the form are still necessary.
Discusses further corrections for the statement concerning the Commercial Advertiser.
Will finish up documents concerning the Commercial Advertiser. Thanks JH for his help and interest in the matter.
Introduces Frederic Smith and asks the Herschels to be kind to him when he arrives at the Cape. Is anxious to see JH again.
Still has not heard from JH. Has put much effort into horary observations of solstices and equinoxes. Sends JH articles by AQ on temperatures of earth. Will send magnetic observations.
Thanks for two letters. Updates JH on observatories participating in horary observations. Proposes to reduce observations. Sends second part of Brussel's annals and other works. Discusses a phenomenon on 10 August. Mentions several observations of the Aurorae Borealis.
Welcomes JH back to England. Proof that AQ never ceased thinking of JH is that AQ never quit his horary observations. Has sent books to R.S.L. for JH. Has restarted his notices on meteors. Is determining their longitude in relation to Greenwich. [Richard] Sheepshanks brought AQ JH's portrait and bust.
Asks TM for some trigonometric information regarding a particular set of points.
Experiencing 'a daily increase of pain and feebleness.'
Hopes that JH will receive Friedrich Bessel's paper called 'On the Influence of the Irregularities of the Earth on Geodetic Operations, and their Comparison with Astronomical Determinations.'
Observing 2000 stars in a check of Giuseppe Piazzi's catalogue.