Thanks for RJ's 'unwearied vigour and activity of mind.'
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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.
Thanks for RJ's 'unwearied vigour and activity of mind.'
Will give every consideration to case of Benedetto Pistrucci, but Engraving department is long overdue for changes to bring it into conformity with all other departments in reorganized Mint.
Please return JH's letter of 20 Nov. Wants to correct error regarding men employed by G. F. G. Mathison.
Charles Elouis discovered errors in Mint accounts since 1837 that explain earlier discrepancies. JH requests authority from Treasury commissioners to adjust previous accounts to correct those errors.
Thanks GS for 'canary' glass. Pleased with GS's 'photological' research, extending the spectrum.
Needs information about the late Thomas Glanville Taylor, astronomer at Madras Observatory, as JH is trying to help one of Taylor's sons obtain a post in the Royal Navy.
Is sorry that Sydney University was not too happy with one of the professors chosen, but feels the Sydney Trust made the right choice [see GA's 1852-11-22].
Report on a paper by Henry Brougham on light experiments, particularly undulatory theory, which JH believes undeserving of publication in R.S.P.T.
Agrees with G. B. Airy's and G. G. Stokes's critique of H. P. Brougham's paper, finding paper unacceptable for publication in R.S.P.T.
On the periodicity of sun spots.