Thanks for his paper on light. Regarding the meeting on Friday. Pendulums. Invitation to dine with him. Geological Society has been offered room; would like him to think about the possibility of one for the Astronomical Society.
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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.
Thanks for his paper on light. Regarding the meeting on Friday. Pendulums. Invitation to dine with him. Geological Society has been offered room; would like him to think about the possibility of one for the Astronomical Society.
Regarding letters from J. L. Tiarks concerning Saturn, and Dr. K. L. C. Rümker concerning J. C. Borda's pendulum at Parramatta.
Regarding the meeting, and the papers read last Friday. Invitation to dine with him and Sir Thomas Brisbane. Regarding Brisbane's observations. Various Astronomical Society affairs.
Invitation to dine with him. Regarding Richard Taylor the printer.
Regarding the printing for the Astronomical Society. Errors in FB's astronomical tables.
Thanks for the two communications. J. F. Encke's work on the Ephemeris. Francis Beaufort's remarks concerning Richard Taylor the printer. Hoping for fine weather for observations.
Further invitation to visit him at Tytherley. Will be using a new telescope. William Wallace's paper for the Monthly Notices.
Instructions on how to reach Tytherley. Has not seen Encke's Comet yet.
His own paper on moon culminating stars for 1829 is now printed. Time Encke's Comet was visible. Foreign encouragement for science. Remarks on pendulum experiments.
Regarding F. W. Bessel's instrument for his zone observations. Who was the first to publish lunar distances from the planets?
Regarding apartments for the Astronomical Society at Somerset House. G. B. Airy called and left a parcel for JH.
Has been obtaining information for his report on the observatories. Is JH's paper ready to be printed? Will be able to economize on the printing of the Greenwich Observations.
Notifying him of a forthcoming meeting of the Council of the R.A.S. Report is ready.
Vacant rooms at Somerset House and possibility of the R.A.S. being allocated some. Suggests a meeting with Frederick Augustus (Duke of Sussex) to press their cause.
Further remarks on the possibility of rooms for R.A.S. at Somerset House. Will be pleased to see him at the visitation. Is working on a paper on the proper motion of the stars.
Has met Frederick Augustus (Duke of Sussex), who would be pleased to receive a deputation. The Council of the R.A.S. have appointed a deputation, including JH. F. W. Bessel's innovation with observations.
John Brinkley (Bishop of Cloyne) is in town and is to dine with him next week. Hopes JH can join him.
Regrets that JH could not dine with him and John Brinkley (Bishop of Cloyne). Has had a letter from the Admiralty about a grant to [T. J.?] Hussey.
Thanks for the paper on Ophiuchi. On the value of JH's works. Printing of [Stephen] Groombridge's catalogue. Candidates for medals awarded by the R.A.S.
Is sending a copy of N. L. Lacaille's catalogue of principal stars. New observer in Yorkshire, a Mr. Beaumont. Pendulum theories known in France, and printed, but not apparently generally known. Is working on new paper for the R.S.L. on various kinds of pendulums.