Has received several letters from German astronomers on U. J. J. Leverrier's suggestions for the re-naming of the asteroids. Comments on this. Is preparing a report for the R.A.S. and would like to hear JH's views on the subject.
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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.
Has received several letters from German astronomers on U. J. J. Leverrier's suggestions for the re-naming of the asteroids. Comments on this. Is preparing a report for the R.A.S. and would like to hear JH's views on the subject.
Is very pleased he agrees with the present system of naming the asteroids; so does G. B. Airy. George Bishop died yesterday, and the Observatory is now in the hands of Bishop's son.
Sends his calculation of the number of days from the commencement of the Julian period to 1 Jan. 1801; the result agrees with that of JH.