Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has again placed him on a committee to translate and publish foreign scientific memoirs.
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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.
Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has again placed him on a committee to translate and publish foreign scientific memoirs.
The report by G. B. Airy, Thomas Henderson, and JH on N. L. Lacaille's stars will be brought forth at the next meeting of the B.A.A.S. JP requests a copy in advance of the meeting.
A report by JH, George Peacock, William Whewell, and Humphrey Lloyd on magnetic observations will be read at the B.A.A.S. meeting in August.
JH appointed to committee with G. B. Airy and Thomas Henderson to study the reductions of the calculations on N. L. Lacaille's stars. They will be granted £189.
JH appointed to head a committee including George Peacock, Humphrey Lloyd, and Edward Sabine to study meteorological instruments. They will be granted £400. The grant will be presented in Glasgow next September.
Discusses need for barometric observations; asks if JH has plans to build a barometer.
Reminder that JH must report on 'Reduction of Meteorological Observations' at next meeting.