Last letter to JH was private [see GA's 1845-4-1].
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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.
Last letter to JH was private [see GA's 1845-4-1].
Gives detailed, official, replies to the questions in the magnetic committee circular [see JH's 1844-12-5].
Illegible.
Comments on JH's observing a 'falling star.'
Comments on the various responses to the circulated questions about magnetic observations [see JH's 1844-12-5].
Regarding magnetic establishments and observations.
Wants information on dispersion/separation of light in plate or crown glass.
Asking him to read GA's medal-speech.
Is enclosing two transcripts of letters from William Simms relating to the object-glass. a. Hopes to give account next week. b. One glass good, other has failed.
Regarding the acceleration of retention of a shrinking sphere.
Passes on information received from Thomas Maclear regarding stars. Has tried to use William Simm's object-glass.
Discourages the continuation of the magnetical and meteorological observations organized by the British.