Sends drawings of masses of ice that fell in the neighborhood on the 7th. Would like drawings returned to deposit them in the museum. Hopes grandchildren reached Collingwood safely.
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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.
Sends drawings of masses of ice that fell in the neighborhood on the 7th. Would like drawings returned to deposit them in the museum. Hopes grandchildren reached Collingwood safely.
Expressing thanks for the gift of one of JH's memoirs.
Sends a cutting from the Stroud Journal concerning JH's father, which may interest JH.
Is giving a lecture on the atmosphere, and wonders if JH has written anywhere on the meteorology of the year 1860.
A daughter of Thomas Maclear is to spend several days with JH and his family before returning to the Cape.
Is trying to make arrangements for Thomas Maclear's son Harry to find a means of survival, and is seeking JH's advice.
Informs JH of the effectiveness of everyone's activity on behalf of Harry Maclear [see HP's 1862-8-15], and thanks JH for his part in this.
[Printed notice] Solicitation by Geological Society of contributions for Charles Nichols, 22-year member who has 'fallen into...difficulty.'
Wants JH to write to the Public School Commissioners to express his views on what direction education should take in the public schools, especially JH's views on the teaching of the physical sciences.
Informs JH of a meeting of the finance committee of the Hawkhurst Volunteers.
Announces a meeting of the Ball Committee to be held at Cranbrook.
[Written on back of printed notice from Smithsonian Institution, asking British correspondents to forward literary and scientific materials via WW in London.] Received JH's note and vol. 7 of Smithsonian Collections. Sent JH's parcel to Washington.
Marquis of Bute [J. P. C. Stuart] purchased property of CB's sister [Mary Anne Hollier] in Cardiff. [Charles] Few & Co., managers of property, sent title for CB's and JH's signatures. Sorry that JH was troubled again by pressure from CB's nephews for money.
Requests that JH return a paper sent to him.
Comments on matters relating to the provision of a reflecting telescope to Melbourne University [see JH's 1862-12-10].
Trying to resolve disagreement between author of a paper, William Hopkins, and JH, a referee.
Requests donation to hospital.
About some major variations in terrestrial magnetism readings.
About disposal of extra copies of JH's printed observations.
Checking the accuracy of a writer's expression of JH's views.