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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.
Sorry to trouble CD with note today regarding occupying the premises.
About the impending death of someone they both hold dear; the nature of the Scots, and an inheritance from Elizabeth Baily.
Thanks HS for sending [see HS's 1859-1-10] HS's Essays and his 'Recent Astronomy and the Nebular Hypothesis.' Regarding the latter, points out a geometrical error, expresses reservations about HS's and Auguste Comte's views of the nebular hypothesis, and argues against HS's theory of sunspot structure. Agrees with HS's idea that some nebulae may be nearer than commonly thought.
JH is reorganizing house while MH is away; other family news; MH is comforting someone very ill.
Sending FH drawings of sunspots made by W. R. Dawes. Asks FH to inspect them and forward them to R.A.S. secretary R. C. Carrington along with any sunspots drawings made by FH on the same dates.
Talks of a committee attempting a massive collection of knowledge from the colonies; JH is considering exchanging some furniture between London and Collingwood.
JH decides not to exchange furniture [see JH's 1859?, i.e., #11005] on daughter Caroline's recommendation; some financial matters.
Of the comings and goings of some of their daughters in London; other family matters, including finances.
Returns proof for JH's ['On a New Projection of the Sphere']. Requests 25 copies when printed.
Requests that proofs of his paper ['On a New Projection of the Sphere'] be sent to him at 37 Tavistock Place.
Asks that the diagrams alluded to be printed with JH's paper ['On a New Projection of the Sphere'].
Any materials to be sent to JH should be sent to JH's Hawkhurst address.
About an expected death, an accident involving an omnibus, and MH's return arrangements for the following day.
Has not yet received SA's Dictionary of English Literature, which SA indicated he was sending.
Writes about the activities of several family members, and then comments on the location of a railway extension, which will come closer to Collingwood.
Talks about the beauty of the flowers at Collingwood, and then comments on his Essays Q.E.R.
Talks about the death of Elizabeth Baily, and the beauty of the fall flowers; comments on correspondence that has arrived, and includes some family news.
Sons William and John have brought photographs from India; also writes news of family and friends.
Discusses the issue [then under debate] of a fixed musical pitch, urging that C be fixed at 512 vibrations per second and explaining in detail his reasons.
Recounts experiments JH conducted on the action of the solar spectrum on various silver salts. Explains how JH produced his solar spectrum.