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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.
Must complete graphs of barometer curves before B.A.A.S. meeting. Did JH mistakenly include 1837 Bogota Almanac in barometer observations?
Sends two dozen more papers on barometer graphs. Must have all papers on subject by January. Pleased with WB's lunar observations.
Offers to meet FB at Manchester B.A.A.S. meeting and to bring FB to Collingwood for a quiet visit.
Detailed arrangements for FB's visit [see JH's 1842-6].
Comments on expected honor from Prussian government and on British rules against officially accepting it.
Informs FB on how to visit Woolwich Arsenal and Dock Yard.
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.
Appreciates receiving the curious fossil, even though JH knows little of such matters.
Responds to RM's request for an analysis of the cause of the difference in climate between Orenburg and Catherineburg in Russia. Agrees that Geological Society can print JH's Alpine memoir.
JH mislaid the request for specimens of photography, but now sends them; describes those sent. Explains how to get a copy of JH's paper on photography.
The instructions for making magnetic and meteorological observations are to be revised. JH asks CG's advice about this.
Has been ill for two months. Will be visited by Dr. Andrew Smith shortly. Hopes TF can come to Collingwood to meet Smith.
Asks about partially white leaves and about droplets of water forming at the tops of leaves. Has been studying the effects of spectral rays on vegetable colorings.
Thanks for calotypes involving persons engaged in actions. Gives encouragement to WT's planned photographic tour in Germany. JH has been experimenting regarding color 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.
Offers an explanation of the phenomena of the freezing cave of Illetzkaya Zatchita in Russia.
Calls attention to the increase in magnitude of the star Eta Cygni. Mentions some other variable stars.
[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.
Comments by words and a drawing on WW's statement that WW was trying to 'puff himself out' to fill his new office and house. Also discusses moral philosophy and the theory of causation.
Alerts WW that F. W. Bessel, in very poor health, will attend the Manchester B.A.A.S. meeting. JH plans to bring Bessel to Collingwood after the meeting.