Response to some papers sent to R.A.S.
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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.
Response to some papers sent to R.A.S.
On the observation of sun spots.
More on the construction of a good optical eyepiece for solar observations [see FH's 1864-4-27].
Would like FH to study a phenomenon that JH has noticed on the sun's disk and that has no connections with sun-spots.
Proposes to travel to visit FH next day to observe the sun with him.
Details about sunspot observations.
Writes to compare notes on sunspot observations.
Is at present too ill to involve himself in any calculations necessary for making a good optical eyepiece.
Returns a paper of Mr. Stobart, which deals with astronomical knowledge of the early Egyptians.
Sending FH drawings of sunspots made by W. R. Dawes. Asks FH to inspect them and forward them to R.A.S. secretary R. C. Carrington along with any sunspots drawings made by FH on the same dates.
Comments on remarkable solar activity. JH admits he has no theory to explain sunspots.