Gives his own views regarding 'Argo' and the renaming of the constellations.
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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.
Gives his own views regarding 'Argo' and the renaming of the constellations.
Invitation to come to Collingwood to discuss star arrangements.
Has sent note to the Times about the comet.
Regarding the revision of the nomenclature of the constellations. Its effect on the printing of the star catalogues.
Observations of [Kensa?] received. The George Everest-Thomas Jervis affair.
Query regarding positions of stars in the various star catalogues.
Proposes to come to London to visit him. Has just received the proofs of Robert Maine's paper on parallax.
Requests FB's paper on the eclipse and the reports on observations of the eclipse that JH has received. Discusses criteria to be used in deciding what to print in the Astronomical Society's journal.
Calls attention to the increase in magnitude of the star Eta Cygni. Mentions some other variable stars.