Urges TM to observe Comet Encke. Anxious about Cape Results completion. Announces move to Collingwood. Requests another meteorite sample. Five schoolmasters to be sent to South Africa. Unable to send refractor.
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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.
Urges TM to observe Comet Encke. Anxious about Cape Results completion. Announces move to Collingwood. Requests another meteorite sample. Five schoolmasters to be sent to South Africa. Unable to send refractor.
Sends Michael Faraday's analysis of TM's meteorite specimen. Cape Observatory will receive theodolite and sidereal telescopes. Government orders Antarctic Magnetico-Explorative Expedition. JH's photography work results in unfixed images. Will report on TM's paper concerning the [N. L.] Lacaille's Stations.
Discusses Andries Stockenstrom's dismissal. Suspects he will be appointed to some other post.
Regarding Thomas Maclear's Cape Meridian.
George Everest-Thomas Jervis affair. Observations on the production of color by chemical rays.
Regarding L. J. M. Daguerre's photographic experiments.
Birth of JH's daughter [Maria Sophia].
Thanks GA for all his efforts on Thomas Maclear's behalf [see GA's 1839-2-25]; comments on some developments in photography, including the work of Nicephore Niepce done in approximately 1826.
Sympathizes with GA in the family sorrow [deaths of GA's sons Arthur and George]; JH complains that house hunting, and other matters, are keeping him from important work.
About astronomical matters, such as parallax and variable stars.
Brief note supporting GA's medal recipient ideas [see GA's 1839-12-16], and adding some of JH's ideas.
Is honored by being nominated as president but would prefer someone else as he is very busy and can ill spare the time.
Approves of the arrangements made by FB regarding the loan of the theodolite.
Will come up to town so that they can work on Thomas Maclear's four foot scale standard. News of the Glasgow Observatory.
Finds that he is unable to attend the Council Meeting so would FB take the chair. Business to be brought before council. Ernesto Capocci has seen a spot on the sun.
On the variability of the star Alpha Cassiopeia.
Has marked Thomas Maclear's paper and returned it to Thomas Galloway.
Has had a letter from [John?] Phillips regarding star nomenclature revision. The display of meteors on the 10th was very fine.
Regarding the Parramatta Observatory. Has produced some colored photographic images.
Further regarding the Cavendish experiments.