Sending another copy of a new edition of one of his books. Thinks he stated too strongly his objections to other people's work in his previous edition. Hopes JH will find time to read it.
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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.
Sending another copy of a new edition of one of his books. Thinks he stated too strongly his objections to other people's work in his previous edition. Hopes JH will find time to read it.
Concerned to hear that JH's health suffered as the result of the visit to JN. Happy that Warren de La Rue and [J.?] Müller are giving their attention to the objects on the sun. Comments on a peculiar sunspot. Appreciates the promise of the new edition of JH's Outlines Astr. Thanks for the cuneiform signature.
Pendulum experiments to be conducted at stations of Great Indian Trigonometrical Survey.
Plans to confer with [J. T.] Walker and F. A. T. Winnecke from Pulkovo to learn of Russian pendulum experiments before reporting to R.S.L. council. J. H. Pratt's measurement of polar axis and theory about earth's center of gravity.
Encloses description of Col. [J. T.?] Walker's experiments. Asks for JH's opinion of these.
Pendulum experiments are already approved at principal stations in Russian trigonometrical survey. Recent communication from J. H. Pratt to R.S.L. about pendulum observations.
Writes to introduce JH's son William James and his new bride to the Lyell's. Both JH and his wife, Margaret, are suffering from illness.
About observing a grain-shaped spot on the sun; greetings to Friedrich Winnecke.
Gives reasons for and discusses technicalities of supporting pendulum experiments at astronomical and geodesical stations in Indian trigonometrical survey.
Thanking him for his book [probably Passages in the Life of a Philosopher].
Sending a draft of a memorial for JH to sign.
Sending the memorial for JH to sign.
Agrees with him that J. Müller's drawings do not show the entities around the sunspot clearly. Has nearly completed the apparatus for holding one of JH's sun prisms to his reflector. Hopes to do something with it soon.
Learned that R.A.S. plans to use aplanatic lenses for solar studies. Submits set of unpublished tables by W. L. Newman [see Newman's 1845-2-18] for calculating radii of such lenses. Refers to work of this kind by Josef Fraunhofer, [G. P.] Bond, K. A. Steinheil, and C. F. Gauss.
Returned from Gloucestershire. Will visit Collingwood on Monday.
Became interested in astronomy as a result of reading the papers of William Herschel. FW read these at Hanover in the collection of Caroline Herschel. FW is now trying to arrange a visit to JH.
Needs to make some adjustment about FW's visit to JH, as FW was not aware that Sunday trains in Britain run differently from other days.
Thanks JH for the day spent with him. FW tells JH about the situation of the grave of Caroline Herschel. Includes silhouette pictures found at Mrs. Groskopf's.
Supports, for scientific and commercial reasons, the retention of the British system of measures, arguing against adoption of the metric or decimal system.