Happy to have met JH. Discusses journey in Himalayas. Would be glad to send JH any information he would like about the tropical climate.
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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.
Happy to have met JH. Discusses journey in Himalayas. Would be glad to send JH any information he would like about the tropical climate.
Encourages GA to make requests to ensure that the Royal Observatory instruments are first rate [see GA's 1855-10-24].
Describes an unusual double rainbow with the second bow extending from an angle to the main arc.
Requesting comments on enclosed papers concerning Greenwich Observatory.
Has secured lodgings for JH's son [Alexander]. Gives details of requirements.
Was pleased to hear from Elizabeth Baily that JH is improving in health. Knows a doctor who can produce jaundice. Plan is on foot to publish Francis Baily's travels in America. Hopes JH will allow his life of Baily to be included. Monument to Richard Sheepshanks is under consideration.
EW writes for Elizabeth Baily, who communicates what she can remember to help JH commemorate her brother Francis Baily, who left a journal of American travels that Miss Baily hopes to make public. Found list of Francis's works that ought to have been forwarded to JH. Miss Baily would like to meet with JH in October or November.