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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.
Informs JH that JH together with several others will be responsible for the distribution of the B.A.A.S. catalogue of stars.
Has nothing more to do than to thank him for his explicit letter. Will forward a copy of this letter to Auguste Comte.
Hears from his publisher that a second edition of JM's System of Logic is being prepared for the press, so would welcome any suggestions from JH regarding alterations or amendments.
Is grateful for JH's letter. Has already had criticisms of the chapter, which JH mentions. Will reconsider it.
Agrees with JH that the price of the B.A.A.S. catalogue of stars should be kept moderate to achieve the widest useful distribution.
Has communicated with [John] Phillips, and indicates that the committee will take responsibility for its actions [in distributing star catalogues?].
Has collected information about coal deposits, but GG is very troubled that the committee [coal map committee of the B.A.A.S] has not yet met and has established no procedures. Describes some of the information GG has at hand.
Returns to JH, and comments on, the distribution lists [for the B.A.A.S. star catalogue].
Hears from the Dean of Ely that JH is busy writing his B.A.A.S. oration. Sent a new volume yesterday. Wished JH had been at RM's soiree on Wednesday.
Criticizing the present system of Education at the Cape.
Sending one of his own books for the R.A.S. and one of his memoirs, also one for JH. Is lacking part of his set of the Memoirs of the Astronomical Society.
Is not clear what the statement from Robert Peel means [see JH's 1845-9-29 or earlier].
Offers to make drawings of the moon's surface for illustrating JH's paper on that subject to be presented to the R.A.S.
Several items of R.S.L. business.
Provides detailed information about JH's responsibilities as President of the B.A.A.S.
Further arrangements about the B.A.A.S. meeting [see GP's 1845-5-10].
Still more about B.A.A.S. meeting arrangements, especially about the magnetic survey {see GP's 1845-5-23].
Brief note alerting JH to the presence of a foreign visitor.
WP identifies date and people present at the time of the experiment referred to by JH in his 1845-11-9.
Is sending JH some powder that HP thinks might be a good compound for polishing telescope specula.