About the desirability of closing a restricted public footpath across JH's property at Slough.
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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.
About the desirability of closing a restricted public footpath across JH's property at Slough.
Dissatisfied with R.S.L. procedures for establishing magnetic and meteorological observatory. Called meeting of Physical Committee tomorrow and invited G. B. Airy to attend. Busy reducing JH's observations from Cape of Good Hope.
Recommends printing all three papers sent to JH—G. B. Airy's on spectral bands, [Robert] Hunt's on influence of iodine on photographic papers, and that by Lord Oxmantown [William Parsons] on large reflecting telescopes.
Sorry that JH missed RJ at W. H. Fitton's. Offers proposal to modify property taxation procedures to yield 'taxation by payments downward' and to decrease load on poorer classes.
Believes that R.S.L.'s request for £3000 grant to establish permanent magnetic and meteorological observatory is too hasty. Urges caution. Points out potential problems.
[Letter begins 11 Dec. 1839] Wrote to John Russell and Charles Grant in support of school system [at Cape of Good Hope]. [Letter continues 6 Jan. 1840:] JH sent to Colonial office testimonials for four applicants [for schoolmaster] approved by Russell. Notes devastating effect of dismissal on Andries Stockenström. Took liberty to inform Russell of JH's and GN's views on harshness of this dismissal. [Letter continues 12 Jan.:] Russell will appoint four schoolmasters picked by JH. [P.S. 11 Feb.:] JH is moving to Collingwood. Russell indicates sympathy for Stockenström. JH hopes this means new assignment for Stockenström.
Has called special meeting of Physical Committee to discuss SC's response to R.S.L.'s proposal to establish permanent observatory. Expresses JH's opinion and recommends temporary observatory instead. Keep this issue separate from funding for publication of present observations.
Appeals to JR on behalf of Andries Stockenström, whose dismissal from Cape Colony created grief. Stockenström is ready to resign that office if he can do so in a manner that permits him to continue his career in government.
Thanks for series of portraits of members of Ipswich Museum.
Thanks for [?]'s note and enclosed sonnet. Sorry that old church was replaced during JH's absence from England.
JH is preparing to leave residence at Slough, and all notes on William Herschel's life are packed away. Refers [?] to published biographies, but adds some corrections to those.
Note on diurnal changes in [magnetic] variation at St. Helena and on estimated cost (£950) of observatory at St. Helena.
Reduction of all stars in N. L. Lacaille's Coelum australe stelliferum is finished. Thomas Henderson's assistant is arranging these into catalogue. This data was sent to Francis Baily.
A note of thanks for the eleventh volume of the Cambridge Observatory observations; JH is sorry that he missed JC in Oxford during the summer.
Provides information [see GA's 1840-8-13] based on equipping the Breslau Observatory; also comments on lawyers, meteor showers, and photography.
Declines the invitation to the annual Hunterian Oration and dinner. Now that JH is moving even farther away from London, he feels he must reluctantly resign as a member of the Trustees of the Hunterian Collection.
Did not vote for RM's friend at the R.S.L. because JH missed the meeting. JH will also miss the next meeting of the Geological Society, as he is returning to Collingwood.
Returns papers dealing with the treatment of Andries Stockenström by Sir George Napier.
Invites Mr. Wagner at Eton to bring his pupils to Slough to observe an occultation [of Jupiter by the moon?].
Requests documents about the disagreement between George Napier and Andries Stockenström, which developed at the Cape. In the course of this request, JH expresses his feelings on the matter.