Is grateful for his letter and will study the memoirs to which he refers. The Editor would also like a photograph; can JH oblige?
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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 grateful for his letter and will study the memoirs to which he refers. The Editor would also like a photograph; can JH oblige?
Soliciting articles for People's Magazine.
[Last page only] Seeks financial support for exploratory survey of Sinai Peninsula.
Impressed by JH's argument against French metric system. Will forward JH's letter to Richard Strachey or, if Strachey is in Abyssinia, to committee for weights and measures in India.
About some instruments to be taken to India by JH's son John.
Provides JH with best definition that GA has available for the gallon [see JH's 1867-11-3], noting that methods for establishing standards are revised, even if the standards supposedly are not.
Writes to acknowledge receipt of letter [see JH's 1864-11-25], but it will take time to work through JH's calculations carefully.
Sends JH a copy of 'Enoch.' Thanks JH for his helpful criticisms.
[Form letter] Schedule of meetings for Institution of Civil Engineers. As honorary member, JH is invited to attend.
Plans for refracting telescope TW is constructing. Diagrams and questions about lens construction.
Reports his opposition, shared by JH, to Britain and India adopting the metric system. Discusses WH's wife, Emma, WH's brother John, a coming solar eclipse, and a theory of gravity.
Sending details of his theory on meteorology and cometography and inviting JH's comments.