Thanks AD for having pointed out an error in one of JH's papers.
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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 AD for having pointed out an error in one of JH's papers.
Wants to set up a benefit club; for mutual insurance of artisans, etc., and is asking AD for actuarial information.
Questions about actuarial information in AD's 1844-1-30.
On poor attendance at R.A.S. dinner, and on the results of unrestricted population growth.
Details of printing the policy for the benefit society.
More details of the benefit society.
More details of the benefit society.
More details of the benefit society.
Discussion of actuarial tables for the benefit society.
Under pressure of time, JH is anxious to resolve the question of appropriate actuarial tables.
Corrections to the actuarial tables.
Further emendations regarding printing the policy of the benefit society.
Thanks for all the help with the benefit society material.
The benefit society is launched and all is well.
Forwards a copy of the rules and regulations of the benefit society, with much thanks.
Has sent some of AD's algebra papers to Mary Somerville; comments on death of Francis Baily.
Sends a list of James Dunlop's nebulae.
Still working on his Cape observations.
Government intention to reduce interest in savings banks may well affect JH's benefit society.
JH agrees to write a biographical sketch of Francis Baily, and hopes he can count on others for information.