Reports on letter from Humphrey Lloyd and latest information from [J. C.] Ross's voyage. Has received JH's meteorological plates.
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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.
Reports on letter from Humphrey Lloyd and latest information from [J. C.] Ross's voyage. Has received JH's meteorological plates.
Reports on instruments being sent to Hamburg and to Egyptian observatories. Encloses portion of [K.] Kriel's letter to [A. T.] Kupffer. Reports on [Charles] Riddell's securing a site for a meteorological observatory.
[Charles] Riddell's observations suggest Europe and North America experience magnetic disturbances at similar times, but in opposite directions. Suggests course of action for [Charles] Riddell and Lieutenant Younghusband in North America.
Hopes [Humphrey] Lloyd will reconsider V.F. Magnetometer based on JH's remarks. Discusses Canadian observatories. States who will perform U. S. magnetic survey. Discusses micrometer use.
Thanks JH for invitation to Slough. Will come to visit.
Sends the corrections of the Meteorological Instructions to JH. Presents a new plan for recording data.
Discusses corrections and title page of a report. Discusses the damage to Charles Riddell's instruments.
Believes Treasury will cover all expenses. The application for a Cairo observatory looks promising and H. C. Oersted is eager to set up a station in Copenhagen. Writes of the instrument requests of other stations.
Plans to order equipment needed for observatories. Asks JH to examine the bills. Announces that both Bavaria and Denmark are planning observatories.
Is of the opinion that plans for the Bavarian observatory station should continue. Announces that the report is finally being printed.
Discusses Charles Riddell's desire to serve at a North American observatory and the expenses involved.
Suggests a book of expenses be kept at the R.S.L.
Discusses plans for a U.S. magnetic observatory and of [Karl] Kreil's paper about predicting earthquakes. Discusses the affairs of other observatories.
Has received materials from [A. D.] Bache indicating that the U.S. government has proposed to establish 5 magnetic observatories.
Writes of a magnetic survey of a portion of India and the inaccuracy of the equipment used in magnetic observations at sea.
R.S.L. Council approved publication of ES's paper on magnetic observation at sea. Discussions for North American magnetic observatories continue.
Hopes to meet with JH to discuss some data. Announces that at the Newcastle B.A.A.S. meeting, JH, Humphrey Lloyd, and ES were appointed to a subcommittee. Discusses what James Ross will do on his return from the Cape. Announces the possibility of ten new observatories in Russia.
Relays communications from [Charles] Riddell in Toronto, who is making progress on the observatory there and has selected an officer of the artillery for an assistant. Suggests the meeting of the Physical Committee be moved. Discusses other matters of various observatories.
Encloses a letter from Boston, which may host an observatory. Has sent Boston information.
Encloses a letter from [John] Lefroy about an 'outbreak of [solar] spots' observed at a certain time. Speaks of purchasing instruments and of writing to the secretary of the Amer[ican Philosophical?] Society.