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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.
Four appointed directors sent to Cape schools. Will leave Slough in two weeks for Collingwood. Laid William Herschel's telescope to rest at Slough.
Congratulates AS on AS being made baronet; wishes him well on re-joining his family at the Cape. Hopes that the problems between AS and Governor George Napier were due only to 'incompatibility of positions.'
Requests JP send JH's projected barometer observation to W. R. Birt.
Requests aid in obtaining materials for experiments, including metal ores.
Responds to GA's circulated material for the Standards Commission; suggests time to digest the information.
Is sending comments on GA's proposals [see GA's 1840-10-13]; JH has been asked about obtaining a heliometer from Munich; seeks GA's opinion on the quality of the brass workmanship in Munich.
Provides detailed comments on GA's circulated material on standards [see JH's 1840-10-30]; tends toward maintaining basic units but finding decimal relationships between them.
Regarding communications from Paddington. Gives verses written in honor of the 40-foot telescope. Has some strange results in photographic work.
Will be pleased to avail himself of the offer of a bed when the council meets. Will prepare a paper on Alpha Orionis for the Friday meeting. Can FB give him any ideas for the Anniversary address?
Will attend R.A.S council and stay with FB; question of expulsion of three members.
Received a 5-ft. Newtonian reflector from JH's aunt Caroline; is offering it to the R.A.S. JH is on the verge of moving to Collingwood.
Would FB deputize for him at the council meeting on Friday as he is unable to attend. Letter from F. W. Bessel regarding 61 Cygni. Has written to G. B. Airy regarding Thomas Maclear's paper.
Invitation to Hawkhurst. Has plenty of R.S.L. work to keep him from his observational work. Question of a new observatory. Has had letter from Wilhelm Struve regarding the fifteen-inch object glass.
Encloses observations on a comet by Carl Bremiker for the next meeting of the R.A.S. Will be unable to attend many of the meetings for this session. F. W. Bessel has lost his only son. C. F. Gauss's researches into the motion of the sun.
Regarding the award of the Royal Medal of the R.S.L. Is unable to come to town. Regarding the appointment of visitors to the Royal Observatory. Is preparing a paper on celestial reform.
Regarding the arrangement of the constellations.
Giving news of his own recent work on the grouping of the constellations.
Organizational matters relating to sending two vessels on an Antarctic expedition.
Thanks AD for a correction in one of JH's writings; tries to explain the partial echo that occurs when blowing across the end of an open pipe.
Gratified by WW's volume. Recalls JH's catenary theorems. Writes function to complete theory of exponential transcendents. WW's applications have greater practical bearing than JH's early efforts, which JH now finds difficult to decipher. Sorry that WW declared Mr. Gilbert's tables defective.