A strong letter on behalf of the provision of financial support for Professor [James David] Forbes, along with JH's personal statement of belief in the need to free distinguished scientists from teaching duties.
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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.
A strong letter on behalf of the provision of financial support for Professor [James David] Forbes, along with JH's personal statement of belief in the need to free distinguished scientists from teaching duties.
Has had a collection of Astronomical Observations from K. L. C. Rümker. Should these be printed and has Rümker the sanction of TB for this kind of observation from the Observatory?
Has not heard from Thomas Young about the reduction of the Parramatta Observations. James Dunlop will not carry out this work; best to leave it to the one named. Will be coming to London soon as the New South Wales Bill comes up, so will call on JH.
Has heard that J. D. Forbes will be leaving Edinburgh to work in Glasgow, where the salary is higher. Would like JH's support for a movement to increase the salary so that Forbes may be retained at Edinburgh.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Glad that Parramatta catalogue was helpful. Laments government decision to do away with Parramatta observatory. TB suffering from rheumatism.