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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.
Asks JG to allow JH to join the Philosophical Club [see JG's 1847-4-17] on a trial basis for a year or two.
Thanks for his valuable paper on galvanic stratification. Hopes to meet him at the B.A.A.S. meeting at Leeds. Encloses some copper salts and would be grateful for his comments on them. Hopes his health has improved.
Gives JG a journal reference.
Comments on R.S.L. acquiring Kew Observatory building for creation of magnetic observatory [see JG's 1871-2-13].