Sends [William] Lassell's letter regarding Melbourne telescope. Pleased with scientific memoirs received from Harvard College.
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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.
Sends [William] Lassell's letter regarding Melbourne telescope. Pleased with scientific memoirs received from Harvard College.
Wrote to [A.] Sawitsch regarding Russian pendulum experiments. Encloses Sawitsch's reply. Discusses experimental possibilities.
Sends [Warren] de La Rue's letter on Southern[?] Telescope for JH's review. Swedish Academy working on reviving project of measuring arc of meridian.
R.S.L. Council has decided to publish correspondence regarding the Melbourne telescope. Sends early pages for JH's corrections.
R.S.L. Club locale changed to St. James's Hotel. Wants JH's advice on two papers ES is writing on results from Kew Observatory.
JH to read his paper on nebulae Thursday, 19 Nov. Dinner will be at St. James's Hotel.
Asks whether Greenwich Board of Visitors should meet to answer communication from Admiralty or if a response could be circulated among Visitors and sent if it meets with approval.
Visitors Board will meet to discuss railway companies' proposal to remove Greenwich Observatory to another site. Includes copy of Warren de La Rue's letter to ES.
Sends, for JH's signature, request from daughter of the late W. R. Hamilton for continuance of Hamilton's pension.
Discusses [John] Hennessey's proposal [see ES's 1866-8-11]. Suggests sending achromatic along with a qualified observer. Thinks Alexander Herschel might be suitable for such a post. Melbourne telescope progressing rapidly.
B.A.A.S. appointed Committee to explore astronomical and meteorological possibilities in India. Considers [G. G.] Stokes's recommendation among the best. Suggests meteorological experiments.
Discusses current debate over placement of telescope in India. Discusses various possibilities for telescope.
Sends copy of B.A.A.S. resolution regarding telescope in India. ES and R.S.L. colleagues agree to take no further steps in matter.
Glad to have met JH's son [John]. Describes benefits of [R.S.L.] meetings for cultivation of science.
Wants information regarding undulatory theory of light controversy and the role of Lord [Henry ] Brougham for his obituary. Congratulates good performance of JH's son [John?] in India.
Discusses [William] Sharpey's view of JH's opinion of [Henry] Brougham's optical writings. Asks for JH's advice on presenting meteorological observations. On observations of an eclipse.
Asks JH to sign [C. P. B.] Walker's certificate for the R.S.L.
A metallic thermometer will be constructed at Kew Observatory to test JH's proposal. Experiments on Index of Friction of gases to be resumed at Kew.
Asks JH to send an actinometer to Kew. It will be forwarded with other meteorological instruments to the Paris Exhibition.
Describes pendulum design. Believes [Henry] Kater's is the best. Regrets Russians want to make own pendulum. Discusses nominees, including [G. P.] Bond, for R.S.L. foreign membership.