Accepts an invitation to dinner.
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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.
Accepts an invitation to dinner.
Comments on the use of a particular phrase and its italicization.
Reports on considerations that led to the election in 1824 of Henry T. Colebrooke to the presidency of the Astronomical Society.
Tells AQ of his daughters's fevers. Rejoices in the power of science to distract him temporarily from worries. Hopes to complete his Catalogus generalis nebularum by end of R.S.L. session.
Replies positively to WS's invitation to a party.
Recommends unreservedly for publication in R.S.P.T. papers by G. G. Stokes and Baden Powell.
Thanks for gelatine [?] paper. Hopes to photograph the sun.
Invites to dinner. Will try to arrange meeting between ES and Danish hydrographer Captain Lahrtman[?].
Discusses dispersive power of enclosed prism.
Maintains opinion that would be improper to append remarks from JH's note to MF's paper.
Fragment of a letter, discussing unity of an R.S.L. committee.
Reports on and recommends for publication [William?] Baxter's paper detailing experiments 'on living and recently dead animals' to determine signs of current electricity manifested during 'organic process of secretion.'
Gives permission for a publisher to copy an engraving for a work by Richard Sheepshanks.
Copy formula and send it to [Richard?] Taylor.
Bad news: a Frenchman has submitted a design for a mathematical machine.
Unable to attend the Astronomical Society meeting. Encloses two papers for him to deal with.
Hopes to see him in town and then they can go to see Joseph Clement. His observations are being spoilt by bad weather.
News concerning Edward Ryan.
Will call on him tomorrow.
Introducing a Mr. Wartam of the Armenian church at Vienna, who knows CB's work on mathematics.