In response to KK's 1839-10-22, JH sends information on [A. F.] Osler's anemometer, and on magnetic measurements to be carried out.
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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.
In response to KK's 1839-10-22, JH sends information on [A. F.] Osler's anemometer, and on magnetic measurements to be carried out.
Is working towards having the government hire the school masters [see GN's 1839-9-30] that GN asked JH to find. JH has also spoken to Lord John Russell about Andries Stockenstrom's plight. [Letter finally completed on 1840-2-11.]
Regrets deeply the little notice given to the observatories and to Humphrey Lloyd in the R.S.L. President's recent speech. Urges ES to comfort Lloyd. States R.S.L. 'is no longer the sole arena in which a scientific name can be acquired.'
Declines to take steps to call a special committee or council meeting of the R.S.L. regarding foreign communications of the observatories, noting his own wish to stay out of R.S.L. affairs.
Requests another copy of WH's paper on light, recently read at Royal Irish Academy, having sent JH's own copy to Prague's [Karl] Kreil for description of [Humphrey] Lloyd's vertical magnetometer contained therein. Has WH yet found the three axes of the universe? Comments on WH's sister's 'charming' poetry.
Intrigued by RH's experiments with photographic papers; will buy six sheets of RH's specimens. Admits having conducted numerous experiments himself and asks to include some of RH's results in a forthcoming paper on the subject.
Brief note supporting GA's medal recipient ideas [see GA's 1839-12-16], and adding some of JH's ideas.
Write to Richard Sheepshanks for permission to copy engraving.
Thanks FB for a variety of observational material, including establishment of standards of measurement [letter completed 1840-1-3].
Discusses L. J. M. Daguerre's patent application, JH's experiments in making light sensitive paper, and JH's determination to give up photographic researches so as to return to preparation of JH's Cape Results.
Discusses JH's efforts to secure applications for teaching positions at the Government Free Schools at the Cape of Good Hope. Lists a number of candidates.