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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.
Encourages GA to consider favorably the offer of Hugh Percy [Duke of Northumberland] of donating a telescope to Cambridge Observatory.
Does not believe that GA's proposal [see GA's 1848-5-4] will work.
Details about proposals for magnetic expeditions, as they are to be presented to British government [see GA's 1838-11-12]. Also included is a copy of the resolutions passed at a B.A.A.S. meeting on 25 Aug. 1828.
Comments on a proposed request for a government grant to establish a magnetic and meteorological institute.
Nine conditions under which JH will accept and test instruments constructed for Cape [of Good Hope] observatory, including the assistance of Mr. Davies in evaluating these.
Recommends buying optics for 7.5-inch telescope from Metz and Mahlers in Munich and having those mounted in London.
A note to accompany some letters being returned to GA.
Has received a request from the Admiralty to order a new telescope for the Cape observatory; at the same time, JH has received an unsolicited offer of a lens. JH seeks advice and information from GA.
Will try to organize an international magnetic conference at the B.A.A.S. meeting in 1845, if GA agrees.
Apologizes for having questioned GA's proposal [see GA's 1848-5-6], which is very good and should work well.
Changing a date of meeting for the magnetic committee of the B.A.A.S., and inviting GA to be there.
Believes he has discovered a second satellite of Neptune; gives readings.
Thanks GA for offer of accommodation [see GA's 1844-11-2], but JH says he must stay with Miss [Elizabeth] Baily at Tavistock Place.
A copy of the question circular, signed by JH, sent to GA [see GA's 1844-12-17].
Wants to know if GA's opinions [see GA's 1845-4-1] are available for public information, or only for JH.
GA's correspondence with [R.S.L. president] Lord Northampton [S. J. A. Compton] will be read before Physical Committee. JH favors establishing national physical observatory and experimental institute, but wishes plan had been discussed more fully. Proposes sites, procedures, and instruments for magnetic and meteorological observations in Britain. Ideas for experimental institute.
Urges doubling number of lunar observations.
Arranging a meeting of the Magnetic Committee to set the agenda for the magnetic conference to be held during the B.A.A.S. meetings in Cambridge.
No news yet about the request to Robert Peel for money for magnetic observations.
How does one jog the memory of the First Lord of the Treasury [see GA's 1845-10-3]?