Sends apologies to William Lassell for omission of discovery credit.
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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.
Sends apologies to William Lassell for omission of discovery credit.
Wishes to put WS's final version of Gamma Virginis orbit in new edition of his catalogue. Asks questions about Mediterranean.
Giving reply for GA to send to Toronto. Is grieved to hear of Edward Sabine's illness.
Requesting clarification of nature of work of joint committee of R.S.L. and B.A.A.S.
Regrets he has kept his theory on harmony so long; returns it and comments on various aspects.
Has not read article on binocular vision. Gives his views on this subject. Sends a copy of a paper he read at Leeds on visual impressions.
Comments on various specimen photographic papers JH is sending; JH believes he has isolated a metal he wants to call 'Junonium.'
Has just returned home and found the Photographic News and the queries regarding chemical experiments and photography. Gives details, but regrets he has not published much on it yet as he is still experimenting.
Thanks for the gift of a book of verse.
Acknowledges receipt of a communication about a comet/meteor from EC.
Thanks for the lunar photographs; comments on other observations.
Has now had time to examine the stereoscopic photograph of the moon. Thinks it is a wonderful effect and opens up a new field for terrestrial objects.
Questions the exact beginning of the year 1857, and offers 'Old King Cole' in Latin.
Riddles, Latin nursery rhymes, and an eclipse description.
About insects JH's children caught and photographed; on a book on harmonics.
Errors to be corrected in a new edition of one of JH's writings, including spelling AD's name in the French way.
On the definition of an island, and an invitation to lecture about a comet.
About biographical information on George Peacock.
Still worrying about where does the day begin?
Is AD interested in the Lowndean Professorship at Cambridge?