Trying to resolve disagreement between author of a paper, William Hopkins, and JH, a referee.
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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.
Trying to resolve disagreement between author of a paper, William Hopkins, and JH, a referee.
Reduction of JH's catalog of nebulae will not be completed before Christmas. HA's success in discovering nebulae and novae. Has compared positions of all nebulae observed by both JH and William Herschel; very few show evidence of shift. Thanks for offering HA's observations, but space in catalog is too limited.
Apologizes for returning WL's letter unopened. JH receives many letters with postage due from strangers and does not accept them. Did not recognize WL's address in Malta. Gives summary of JH's 3 Oct. 1862 letter to WL that seems to have been lost.
Sends £10 to GA, exhausting grant from R.S.L. GA's estimate of 5600 nebulae was too high. Recommends asking R.S.L. for additional £50.
Requests donation to hospital.
Discusses some of HH's criticisms of JH's translation of Homer's Iliad; JH also remarks on the cause of the Gulf Stream.
About some major variations in terrestrial magnetism readings.
Extensive comments on the type and construction of telescope to be supplied to Melbourne University.
About disposal of extra copies of JH's printed observations.
Checking the accuracy of a writer's expression of JH's views.
Relating to writing for the Cornhill Magazine, and spare copies of the Cape Results.
Paper prepared by JH is judged as being 'too deep' for the readers of the Cornhill Magazine.
Relating to a paper JH sent in, and copies of another of JH's papers that have been printed.
Relating to publication of JH's work in the Cornhill Magazine.
Further to publication of JH's work [see GS's 1862-8-28 & 1862-8-12].
Note of thanks to accompany payment for JH's first installment of the Iliad translation.
Note accompanying proofs of a contribution by JH to 'Survey of Literature, Science, and Art'.
Note accompanying some material being returned to JH.
Note accompanying payment for JH's writing [see SE's 1862-9-13].
As GA is about to leave on holiday, he brings JH up to date on the state of the nebula calculations [see JH's 1862-5-28].