Wants JH to sign certificate for [Joseph] Kay. Mrs. Sabine will resume her translation of [Alexander von Humboldt's] Cosmos. Mr. Gyde has not received list of presentation copies of the B.A.A.S. catalogue.
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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.
Wants JH to sign certificate for [Joseph] Kay. Mrs. Sabine will resume her translation of [Alexander von Humboldt's] Cosmos. Mr. Gyde has not received list of presentation copies of the B.A.A.S. catalogue.
Please notify ES of date for the council [of B. A. A. S?] to meet. Oxford is most eligible of Southampton invitations. Sir Robert [Inglis] is best candidate for president.
Invites AS to Collingwood for Christmas. JH has been ill.
Announces the discovery of a new 'planet' by [K. L.] Hencke of Prussia, of the class of 'the 4 small ones' [the asteroids].
Is skeptical of the American observations [see GA's 1845-12-8], and reports other observations communicated to JH.
George Airy, George Peacock, and [Adam] Sedgwick are visiting Collingwood for Christmas. Airy writes JH that an American astronomer named [Ormsby] 'Mitchell' has seen Antares double. JH reports that William Lassell and W. R. Dawes have observed the 7th Saturnian satellite and also another of the six satellites of the 'Georgium Sidus' [Uranus]. JH is confident that his Cape Results will go to the presses in January.
Will consider GA's objections [see GA's 1845-12-27] when JH works further on double star orbits.
Karl Hencke discovers the asteroid Astrea. Admiralty orders complete equatorial for Cape Observatory; JH explains delay. Complains of poor health.
Passing on information received from a O. M. Mitchel[l] of Cincinnati regarding Antares, and the surface of the sun.
A note enclosing a copy of a letter from the Admiralty, on which JH is requested to comment.
Regarding estimates and payment for a parallectical mounting.
Regarding the condition for determining the best possible orbit for a double star.
Has just seen Lady Herschel and heard the news of his health. Urges him to come to town for treatment.
Health has improved. Regarding an experiment carried out at the Royal Institution.
Writes in thanks for JH's kind words on several occasions about FB's ideas on psychology.
The great atmospheric wave has returned; observations on this.
Is sorry to hear of his indisposition. Regarding movements connected with the sun.
Announces 18 Dec. meeting of Committee of Mathematics, Astronomy, and Physics.
JH suffering chest pains. Delighted that WB again observed 'great symmetrical wave.' Sun's effect on atmosphere is like the wake of 'Leviathan going round & round in a confined ... harbour.'
Writes to ask MH's advice about ordering flowers for planting.