Requests that JH write a few lines to an old friend of HK's in Germany.
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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.
Requests that JH write a few lines to an old friend of HK's in Germany.
Is pleased that the bishop found nothing religiously objectionable in JH's two papers, censored by the editor of the Fortnightly Review, in which JH suggested the spiritual origination of force, an idea that JH states has repeatedly appeared in JH's publications.
Comments that A. J. Fresnel's papers in the Annales de chimie are really incomplete sketches of theories, which he developed later. Theory clearly stated in [Felix] Billet's Traité d'optique physique. Friend of his at Trinity College has produced a peculiar liquid.
Requesting information as to where he can find details of the principle that regulates the application of the Greek accents.
Grateful for letter from WJH's wife Emma. Maria Herschel's engagement to Henry Hardcastle. WJH's report on improvements in British administration of India is good news. News and whereabouts of Herschel family. JH paid WJH's annual taxes, but not dues to Amateur Photographic Association requested by J. Melhuish. Alexander Herschel leaves Tuesday for Pyrenees.
Sends copy of paper on 'projection of the sphere in which the problem is to make any infinitely small figure on the projection similar to that on the sphere,' which he has presented to the Royal Geographical Society.
Replies to JH's letter of 1865-5-25 concerning the altitude/temperature equation.
On concept formation.
Will expect JH on Monday.
A note to accompany the sending of some papers to JH and the R. A. S.
Offers to lecture to JH's 'association.' Describes microscope equipment designed by EW and son, who now manufactures portable telescopes. Diagrams and questions about new object glasses and compound lenses. Offers free telescope to Alexander Herschel. Progress of Atlantic Cable offers good lecture topic for next session.
Thanks JH for letter and explanation. Will contact Charles Pritchard for details. Please forward 'enclosed' to [Alexander Herschel].