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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.
As many Russian observatories are now involved in magnetic observations, JH thinks the British observations should continue [see GA's 1842-1-22].
Grateful for being made Knight Commander of the Illustrious Order of Dannebrog, but British rules forbid JH accepting foreign title.
Offers an explanation of the phenomena of the freezing cave of Illetzkaya Zatchita in Russia.
Comments by words and a drawing on WW's statement that WW was trying to 'puff himself out' to fill his new office and house. Also discusses moral philosophy and the theory of causation.