Is sending from the Navy Board a new publication.
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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.
Is sending from the Navy Board a new publication.
Thanks for volume on physical geography and for encouragement at start of GS's career. Hopes JH will approve of GS's latest work.
Thanks JH for copy of Cape Observations; says it will be useful to students of Madras College. Remarks on double star observations of his own confirmed in Outlines Astr. Wants to start a double star catalogue.
Directs JH to inquire regarding a pension for John Russell. Note C. P. Smyth's use of Outlines Astr. Mentions Isaac Fletcher as a promising amateur astronomer.
Material sent by JH [see JH's 1862-4-2] arrived safely.
Maggie Maclear returned to Cape Town after attempting to run away to England. Herschel family instrumental in her safe return.
Acknowledgment of receipt of more material from JH [see GA's 1862-4-3].
Needs to know, from JH, the date of the nebula observations [see GA's 1862-4-9].
Acknowledges receipt of more material from JH [see JH's 1862-4-13].
Sends JH a copy of the form to be used for reduced observations [see JH's 1862-4-17].
Acknowledges receipt of payment [see JH's 1862-4-25]; asks for final approval of printing structure for the nebula catalogue.
At the suggestion of Charles Lyell, requests JH's support for his plan for public school reform. Concerns include teaching of modern languages and time allotted for natural science. Calls for firm grounding in mathematics, including a thorough study of Books I-IV of Euclid's Elements of Geometry.
Seeks clarification of the position of one of the listed nebulae [see JH's 1862-4-30].
Attempts a more accurate estimate of work to be done on nebula catalogue [see JH's 1862-6-27].
Thanks JH for favorable notice of his play. Sends sample of D. G. Rossetti's translation of Dante's Vita nuova.
The reductions are essentially complete; encourages JH in his part of the work and concludes 'It will be a noble work' [see JH's 1862-11-5].
Sends letter from Mr. Rüppell, who wishes to get a copy of R.A.S. medal.
Discusses plans for a hot-air balloon.
Has received notice from the Foreign Office that the Russian Government has sanctioned the establishment of a magnetic and meteorological observatory at Pekin.
Informing him of a projected change in the scale of weights to be used in the new British Pharmacopaeia. Would like JH's opinion on this.