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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.
The packet for Wilfred Heely has just been delivered and JM will arrange for it to be forwarded to Calcutta by the Mail steamer.
Is grateful for JH's translation of Homer, which he values. Regrets to see JH's son so fatigued.
Has been travelling around lecturing on geology since he left the London Polytechnic in 1861. Wishes that someone like JH would consider geological features from a dynamical point of view.
Giving details of the meteors that fell recently.
Giving news of the health of his brother, who will shortly be moving to St. Leonard's for health reasons.
Tells JH that JS's brother, James, is very ill and infirm, almost blind and with his memory failing, but wishing to be reconciled to those with whom he was in conflict in earlier times. Charles Babbage has visited. Would JH come or write?
Thanks JH for his kind letter [see JH's 1866-5-31]. James South has heard that his godson, William James Herschel, has returned from India. Could JH visit? [A greeting is appended by James South.]
As directed by Meteorological Committee, HB sends report on 1864 Calcutta cyclone.
[Printed letter] Collecting poems related to natural history and physical science. Lists 16, including JH's 'On the Herschelean Telescope.'
JH's solution is perfectly satisfactory.
Clarendon Press plans to publish series on logic. Invites JH to write treatise on inductive logic. Expect letters on this from John Phillips and Bartholomew Price.
Grateful that JH is considering [writing treatise on inductive logic]. Each book in series is independent of other authors. Conveyed JH's request to Bartholomew Price.
Supports G. W. Kitchin's request that JH write treatise on inductive logic for benefit of Oxford students.
Requests JH's views on inductive logic for a publication by Cambridge.
Comments against the paper of Ernst Klinkerfüss about observations of dispersed star light [see JH's 1866-2-24].
Further comments on Ernst Klinkerfüss's paper, in response to JH's 1866-2-28.
Comments on a letter GS received from Ernst Klinkerfüss, which leaves GS convinced of the basic correctness of the views of GS and JH.
Resolution reappointing JH and others to committee to persuade Russian government to establish magnetic observatory at Tiflis [Tbilisi, Georgia] under direction of Prof. [?] Moritz.
Informs JH that his comments against sending a major telescope to India were decisive [see JH's 1866-8-11 & 1866-9-4]; biggest cost impediment was salary of observer.
Comments on the state of William Whewell's health, and about the theories of E. F. W. Klinkerfüss [see JH's 1866-2-27].