Hopes JH will attend [18 June] meeting of Visitors of [Royal] Observatory to discuss letter of [E. A. S. Seymour, 12th] Duke of Somerset, belittling value of [P. A.] Hansen's observations.
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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.
Hopes JH will attend [18 June] meeting of Visitors of [Royal] Observatory to discuss letter of [E. A. S. Seymour, 12th] Duke of Somerset, belittling value of [P. A.] Hansen's observations.
Regarding increasing the payment to the Secretaries of the R.S.L. Would like JH's comments.
Has had no reply from H. P. F. P. Clinton (5th Duke of Newcastle); will write to H. J. Temple (3rd Viscount Palmerston) later if no answer is received.
Has written to E. A. S. Seymour (12th Duke of Somerset) and will send William Lassell's letter of introduction to Admiral Edward Codrington.
Has just received the enclosed.
Has received the enclosed from E. A. S. Seymour (12th Duke of Somerset). Has sent the memorandum to William Lassell. Can also send the Duke's letter if he thinks it worthwhile.
Sends the official answer from the Admiralty about the William Lassell affair. Suggests all the letters about this subject should be placed in the archives of the R.S.L. for future reference.
Please send William Lassell the original letters to take with him when he goes to Malta, as he has only the copies at present.
Has interpreted the word 'honorary' quite correctly.