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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.
Writes of finding barometric data from some 1836 meteorological observations. Is sending two diagrams. Offers to help JH write a report for the R.S.L.
Encloses maps from the Magnetic Department and a paper published in 1836.
Received JH's note from Belvedere Hotel. Mentions various arrangements regarding JH's European journey, including JH's planned visit to Wilhelm Olbers.
Unless other responsibilities interfere, HS will meet JH in Bremen.
In compliance with JH's request, HS did not go to Bremen to meet JH. Hopes JH will visit him in Altona and stay at his house.
Asks if he can publish the finding that the star in Argo is dimming in Astronomische Nachrichten. Questions whether barometric information should be in feet or yards. Asks JH about a publication that HS and [Alexander von] Humboldt are planning.
Has spent much time in Petersburg dealing with Pulkowa affairs. Mentions his works that he has recently sent to JH. Thanks for comments on his 'Mensurae Micrometricae.' Looks forward to publication of JH's work at the Cape. Discusses suitability of the Russian winter for astronomical work. Requests JH's opinion of the instruments made by [J. G.?] Repsold and designated for Pulkowa. Comments on the heliometer. Invites JH to opening of Pulkowa Observatory.
Has received JH's letter of 29 October. No need to thank for meteorological observations. Done in interest of science. Sends measurements of December 1837 and other bulletins. Asks JH to send his extra copy of AQ's Correspondence mathématique of July 1838 to [J. D.] Robertson. Asks more about satellites of Saturn. Thanks for information on meteors.
Discusses observation of meteors. Sends observations of last solstice and details of that night's constellations. Offers results of observations of occultation of Gamma[?] Tauri[?].
Sends latest publications. Has received highly surprizing letter on meteors by Mr. Wood. Discusses 'famous apparitions.'
No one on committee has taken sufficient initiative to obtain funding for magnetic instruments. Hopes S. H. Christie and JH will act in this regard. Discusses doubts about South Polar magnetic expedition.
Waxes poetic in reply to JH's note of sympathy for MS's husband's death. Hopes for JH's safe return from the Cape and that JH will visit when in town. Updates on family news.
Congratulates JH on his successful Cape Town enterprise.
Pleased that the Royal Irish Academy awarded its Science Medal to James MacCullagh for his paper on the "Laws of Crystalline Reflexion and Refraction;" he deems MacCullagh's essay superior to WH's "On Algebra as the Science of Pure Time.","L
Grateful to be made an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy. Wants 'one or two' copies of her index to John Flamsteed's catalog of omitted stars.
Madras Observatory established by James Caldecott. TT gives JC some ideas of JH's to aid the state of the observatory. Re-observes the Brisbane Catalogue.
Property of Royal Observatory will be extended.
Will send a representative to JH to discuss some matters.
Suggests Moyes Publishing Company to JH. Observes Encke's Comet. Visited by W. R. Hamilton and John Russell.
Sends designs of the coat of arms to be assigned to the Herschel family.