Destroy or return the article given him on Thursday. Has found something better.
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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.
Destroy or return the article given him on Thursday. Has found something better.
Regarding the copying of the painting by William Artaud. Send it by coach if possible. Meeting of the Astronomical Society Council and matters arising from it.
Regarding the Cambridge affair. Has had a letter from the Edinburgh Society of Arts.
Has had a letter from George Peacock. Regarding the Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge.
Thanks JH for FB becoming Associate member of Astronomical Society; FB is planning to prepare a new major star catalogue.
Thanks JH for some papers, sends some of his own; comments about errors in Greenwich star catalogue.
JH has been appointed a Lay-fellow. It entails no duties. The present body regards it as an honor to retain JH's name.
Thanks for the Nautical Almanac. Still requires R.S.P.T. for 1817. Through Francis Baily he will receive copies of his Yearbook, one for his father and one for the R.S.L.
It has been a long time since he last heard from him. Very busy with professional pursuits. Congratulations on receiving the Copley medal. Would like an abstract of his article on aberrations in chromatic lenses. Comments on this.
Accompanies a paper JH was submitting to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Discusses motion of light rays in Apophyllite and various optical writings of DB.
Has been unable to answer his letters due to the King's visit. Refrained from writing on hearing of the death of W. Herschel. His paper on the absorption of light will appear in the next number of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Comments on this. Grateful for any astronomical news. Advice welcomed on memoir of W. Herschel.
Is extremely sorry to hear the news of the death of William Herschel. Regarding F. W. Bessel's polar distances in relation to his own, and possible reasons for their difference. Has been working on the Greenwich observations.
Would like a few of his poems so that she can publish them in an anthology.
Thanking him for poetry. Would like some more, written on a different subject and under better conditions.
Thanking him for his poems. Will print some; is returning the remainder.
Has only had 100 copies of his own tables printed. Difficulties as to whom he should send them. Regarding the observations of the old astronomers. Any news regarding the printing of Giuseppe Piazzi's paper?
Regarding a suitable date for the next meeting of Council. Construction of tables. Regulations regarding auditors.
Reasons why JH was unable to see the Atlas when he called.
Regarding H. C. Schumacher's Nachrichten. Astronomical observations. Regarding foreign correspondents for the Astronomical Society.
Regarding the plan of the tables for the places of the principal stars. Will be unable to attend the meeting of council on Friday. Will send memorandum for discussion.