A note to accompany some letters being returned to GA.
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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.
A note to accompany some letters being returned to GA.
Regarding the revision of the instructions for the magnetic observatories.
Writes to send thanks by way of AH to the King of Prussia for the award of the Order of Merit. JH also comments on some astronomical matters.
Asks GA's opinion as to whether Ordinance observatories should make their magnetic observations on a 3-minute or 5-minute system.
Is organizing a committee to revise the instructions for observers at magnetic observatories; GA is on it.
Describes the total solar eclipse seen by Francis Baily at Pavia and George Airy at Turin. They were thrilled to witness three purple flames from the blocked sun emerge around the edge of the moon. Thirty more Cape Town sweeps remain to be reduced.
Thanks for the information on the eclipse. Comments on this. Events at the B.A.A.S. meeting. News of Wilhelm Struve's activities.
Would be pleased to be visited by C to discuss the application regarding glass [lenses] of various algebraic formulae devised by JH. Will also show C some of JH's recent work in photography.
Seeks to clear up confusions about various photographic processes, e.g., the Chrysotype process, developed by JH, about which confusions arose from earlier reports on them in the Athenaeum.
[To JC as Secretary, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge:] Thanks for offer to send a copy of Augustus De Morgan's Differential and Integral Calculus.