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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.
Personally would like to have F. W. A. Argelander's work printed [see GA's 1848-9-13], but will need to get a wider opinion; also asks about sharing money available from the Admiralty [see GA's 1845-10-24].
Sends paper by F. W. A. Argelander, which G. B. Airy wishes to have published. Revising chapter on perturbations in his Treatise Astr. Will include theory of motions of the apsides and the variations of the eccentricities.
Asks JH for his opinion of F. W. A. Argelander's letter concerning the publication of his work by the R.A.S.
Concerning the eighth satellite. Observations on U. J. J. Leverrier's paper.
Queries regarding the perturbation sheets.
Is sending on the proofs as he does not know the printer.
Francis Beaufort thinks that FB's essay in the Admiralty Manual should include a few lines on the height of the waves of the ocean. FB has asked Beaufort to write these lines.
Returning JH's proof sheet with errors noted in pencil. Gives some of his recent observations on the satellites of Saturn.
Has experienced bad weather since the discovery of Saturn's 8th satellite. William Lassell proposes to call it Hyperion. Wishes Starfield Observatory was situated in a clearer atmosphere.
Lord Lovelace [William King] is collecting all works on moon's influence on weather. Asks for JH's suggestions.
Comments on observational quality obtainable with the great telescope of William Parsons [Earl of Rosse].
Discusses WW's essay on tides for JH's Admiralty Manual, aspects of JH's Outlines Astr., and planetary astronomy in general.
Discusses revisions in WW's and Frederick Beechey's papers in JH's Admiralty Manual. Also comments on drafting Outlines Astr., the controversy over the discovery of Neptune, and William Lassell's discovery of a new Saturnian satellite.
Was pleased to receive his note and to hear that he is in good health and spirits. Urges him to come to Ireland.
Francis Jeffrey (Lord Jeffrey) is slowly recovering. He has stated several times that JH is the man to review the 2nd volume of Kosmos. Sends prospectus of the Physical Atlas. Returns to Haileybury on the 18th. Richard Jones is in Argyle.