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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 preparing a popular work on astronomical phenomena and would welcome copies of JH's Outlines Astr. and Cape Results.
Would like some contributions from JH for the Churchman's Family Magazine.
The missing parts will be sent in the Spring. The Academy would be pleased to receive any of JH's publications. Thanks for the pamphlet 'On Atoms.'
Received manuscript of JH's translation of third book of Iliad.
Received JH's translation of fourth book of Iliad. Will return it with comments in a few days. Attended two or three excellent lectures by JH's son. HH needs to balance mental efforts with more physical activity.
Many thanks for his information. Comments again on the prize being offered by the Academy. The answer is now being published by the R.S.L.
After receiving testimonials of the highest order he has appointed [Albert?] Marth to be his assistant. Encloses some observations of nebulae. If JH's sons are visiting Malta he would be pleased to see them.
Is pleased H. J. Temple (3rd Viscount Palmerston) has replied so promptly to JH's memorial regarding Thomas Maclear. Would like JH's sanction for JL's support of George Rümker as the new Observer at Hamburg.
Is pleased that the Government have put Sir Thomas Maclear on the Civil list. Has read JH's paper on atoms with much interest and amusement. Hopes that JH will call at the Observatory when in Oxford. Finds the R. C. Carrington transit circle a valuable instrument. Comments on his observations.
Received his letter and comments with pleasure. Asks some questions on photographic experiments.
Further inquiries on photographic processes.
Official receipt for copy of JH's The Telescope (1861) by library at Smithsonian Institution.
Note accompanying payment for 'Notes on Science' for Cornhill Magazine.
WS's photographer may get a grant from the R.S.L. Object glass for new telescope was stolen. They are still using the old one.
Asks permission to print extract of JH's letter on heat spots of spectrum of rock salt sample. Hopes JH's son [Alexander] will speak at Royal Institution; JT would help with illustration. Wonders how blue color of water relates to sky color and polarization.
In GA's absence, ES reports on the state of completion of the final copy of the nebula catalogue [see JH's 1863-1-13].
Concerning Thomas Maclear.
Requesting him to become a member of the newly formed Anthropological Society.
Has been reading his work on volcanoes and earthquakes ['About Volcanoes and Earthquakes'] with interest. Regarding his own health.
Regarding their journals and publication dates.