Provides detailed observations made by JH on his ascent up Monte Rosa in the Alps.
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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.
Provides detailed observations made by JH on his ascent up Monte Rosa in the Alps.
Writes asking that James Grahame's father-in-law, Rev. Wilson, be retained as pastor of the Protestant church at Nantes.
Thanks GB for the gift of a work on medicine, and then JH proceeds to comment at some length on various aspects contained in it.
Declines election to R.S.L. Council.
Comments on the work of T. G. Taylor in reducing the observations for [Stephen] Groombridge's catalogue, and on an appropriate remuneration for the work. Enclosed are comments for the benefit of Taylor.
Has written the Chancellor [Henry Brougham] to accept the knighthood offered him. Sent observations from Monte Rosa to Lord Minto. Thanks WS for his help with the Chancellor.
JH awarded the Guelphic Order of Knighthood by King William IV, an honor earlier bestowed on William Herschel.
Sends data concerning double stars and new form for making observations of them.
Will contact his aunt for the Hannover Gazette. Wishes to see Joseph Clement about moving the telescope.
Is returning the proof of [Stephen] Groombridge's catalogue. Comments on the expense of printing it. Is pleased that Thomas Henderson has been appointed Cape Astronomer.
Sends JH's observations and measurements made during JH's Sept. 1821 ascent of a peak near Mt. Rosa. Also sends JH's observations of Mt. Etna made in June 1824.