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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.
Gives his proposal for the amendment of nomenclature for the northern constellations. F. W. A. Argelander's new celestial atlas. Regarding JH's southern map. The letter from the B.A.A.S. has been sent to Sir Robert Peel.
Regarding JH's answer to his own paper on the revision of the boundaries of the constellations.
Can JH come to the congress on Friday?
Has invited some astronomical friends to the meeting on Friday.
Has obtained maps from the Diffusion Society and marked in the new stars and the constellations. Has arranged to send some to him.
Is returning the report to the B.A.A.S., with one alteration. Will forward the map to Mr. Jensen with JH's remarks.
Will be unable to attend the meeting of the B.A.A.S. His sister is having an operation to her eyes. Is sending an account of the comet. Mr. Jensen will be coming down with the map.
Mr. Jensen called to say that he will be visiting Collingwood on Monday with the map.
Has received official communication from the Treasury that the government will provide financial assistance to print the catalogues of stars. Both these catalogues and the one to be printed by the B.A.A.S. await their decision on star nomenclature.
Has received the parcel. Papers regarding the comet have been sent to the R.A.S. John Hartnup is to copy out the catalogue of stars. Will have to wait awhile for the maps of F. W. A. Argelander and Mr. Schwinck. Is preparing for the printing of the catalogues.
Sends specimens of works which are to go to press. Has had an estimate for the printing. Nomenclature has to be settled first.
Regarding bringing N. L. Lacaille up to a modern period. Regarding a table of precessions. FB's sister.
It will be quite convenient for JH to visit him on Friday. Sister's health is improved. Delay in the celestial maps ordered.
Has a copy of F. W. A. Argelander's Uranometria. Comments on this in relation to the proposed revision of the constellations.
Has received his letter and incorporated the amendments in the paper.
Comments regarding the proposed revision of the constellations.
Has compared all the stars in N. L. Lacaille's catalogue to the new observations and plan for the constellations.
Unable to write before as he was packing for his journey home. Regrets none of his northern friends had seen the comet. Its orbit has been calculated as 35.3 years. Remarks on the tail of the comet.
Thought JH had given up interest in Meteorological Observations until he saw his report in the B.A.A.S. meeting. Would like his comments on Meteorological Observations to be made at Nice to where he is now going. Is taking the big object-glass and eye pieces.
Is planning to blow down part of the cliffs near Dover for the railway and gives details of how he plans to do it.