Treasury Commissioners ask that surviving members of 1853 Standards Committee reexamine Parliamentary standards of length and measure preserved at office of Exchequer.
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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.
Treasury Commissioners ask that surviving members of 1853 Standards Committee reexamine Parliamentary standards of length and measure preserved at office of Exchequer.
Committee to reexamine Parliamentary standards of length and measure will meet on 11 Feb. in office of comptroller-general of Exchequer [Thomas Spring-Rice]. If committee desires to compare three copies of Standards, those copies will be brought to Exchequer office.]
Replies to opinions of astronomers [regarding moon's influence on weather]. Still waiting to hear from JH's son Alexander whether microscopists have searched for foraminifera in meteorites.
Encloses JL's weather observations over past year. Asks if uniform style exists for all observers to follow. JL's views about moon's effect on climate. Wishes Robert FitzRoy would abandon weather prognostication and concentrate on valuable daily reports.
Enclose table of GP's and JP's observations, inspired by JH's article in Jan. 1864 Good Words. Apologize for disputing JH's authority, but GP and JP found that full moon has no influence on local cloud cover.
Discusses printing of JH's catalogue of nebulae.
Sends R.S.L. Council's formal acknowledgement of star catalogue manuscript [see JH's 1863-12-4].
Asks JH to review 'magnetical' paper by Edward Sabine.
Sends paper on earth's temperature for JH's opinion.
CR's hypothesis regarding effects of rotation of large masses, like sun and Jupiter, on rotation and orbits of small planets and satellites. Quotes Genesis for support.
Demonstrates mathematically that sun's orbit cannot be elliptical.
Corrects error in sun's velocity that CR stated in earlier letter to JH today.
Offers JS's wind observations, as requested in JH's ['Weather and Weather Prophets' (1864)] in Good Words.
Forwards WS's observations of cloud cover in Banffshire during full moons of Dec. 1863, Jan. 1864, and Feb. 1864, as suggested by JH in Good Words.
Encloses description of Col. [J. T.?] Walker's experiments. Asks for JH's opinion of these.
G. B. Airy's paper has been received at R.S.L.
Encloses WW's table of meteorological data for Jan.-Dec. 1864, made in response to JH's claim that full moon influences cloud cover.
Poses question of sun's differential gravitational attraction on opposite sides of earth, inspired by JH's article ['Sun,' 1863] in Good Words.
Resolution reappointing JH and others to Balloon Committee for further experiments.
Encloses prints of specimens produced by WH's new lathe for manufacturing telescope specula. Asks JH's opinion of results.