Further about the map printing problem [see FB's 1841-4-6].
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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.
Further about the map printing problem [see FB's 1841-4-6].
Provides examples to justify governmental support of various magnetic and meteorological observations. States that 'Terrestrial magnetism ... of all sciences of observation holds out the greatest present prospect of decisive reduction under ... exact theory.' Mentions work by N. L. Lacaille and Thomas Maclear at the Cape.
Has not unpacked William Herschel's letters that JH secured from the R.S.L.
Sends letter on the subject of the star maps.
Regarding the payment of John Arrowsmith's bill for the printing of the star maps, which seems excessive in relation to the low standard achieved. Would like FB's comments.
Would like some dry prints of the star map, if no further expense is involved. Is sorry that he has caused him all the bother.
Sends missing barometer observations from Montreal, Flushing, and Albany. B.A.A.S meeting postponed.
Doubts that isomerism of all elements can be verified experimentally, but notes a number of groups with similar atomic weights that might well fit. Further on vegetable colors in photography. Refers to enclosure of a further dialogue on infinity.
Asks WW to be godfather to JH's new daughter, Amelia. In reviewing WW's [Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences] has found many of JH's views changing, but cannot accept his dear friend's a prioristic approach.
Is moving the date for christening JH's daughter [Amelia] and WW's goddaughter to 3 May to accommodate the godmother, Maria Edgeworth.