Points out minor errors in the manuscript of JH's 'The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre.'
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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.
Points out minor errors in the manuscript of JH's 'The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre.'
Sends regrets to JH over the error in The Leeds Mercury claiming that the Leeds Astronomical Society had the copyright to 'The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre.'
Concerning the 'Standards.'
Regarding A. R. Clarke's paper on Geodesy. Benjamin Peirce's Lunar Table. The sun's parallax. JH's nebulae catalogue. Regarding the English inch.
Regarding employment for GA's son in the Educational Departments in India.
Is still not happy with the earth's axis as a source of standard length; sends JH the results of A. R. Clarke's calculations on the figure of the earth [see JH's 1863-10-8].
Is co-editor of a new quarterly scientific journal [Quarterly Journal of Science] and would be pleased to receive any contributions from JH, which would be liberally paid for.
Would JH's son [Alexander?] favor him with a resume of astronomical discovery for his new quarterly; if so, could he have his address?
Thanks for his comments on his memoir. Sends a few additions, which he will be submitting to the R.A.S. in due course. Will send a copy of the memoir to JH's son.
Thanks to JH's note Thomas Cooke was able to visit the Paris Observatory. His own health is slowly improving.
WC's goals in founding Quarterly Journal of Science. Invites JH to submit article for first issue.
Is very grateful for his work on the plurality of worlds. Comments on his own recent work and the work of JH on nebulae.