Comments on exchange of papers with JH over the years, especially on electricity. Thanks JH for his assistance in AQ's research. Notes the loss of H. C. Schumacher. Hopes to come to England for the Great Exposition.
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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.
Comments on exchange of papers with JH over the years, especially on electricity. Thanks JH for his assistance in AQ's research. Notes the loss of H. C. Schumacher. Hopes to come to England for the Great Exposition.
JH's new position [Master of Mint] took him by surprise. People seem 'wild' over renewed agitation of Papal aggression issue. Describes the discovery of Saturn's new ring.
The eclipse observation suggestions are now ready for printing [see GA's 1851-1-7]; would JH proof read them?
Will be happy to proofread the material [see GA's 1851-3-7].
Will send the eclipse observation suggestions in print, not manuscript [see JH's 1851-3-8]; the path of the eclipse has been misrepresented by J. F. Encke's carelessly identified latitudes.
Letter of clarification about the enclosed proof of the eclipse suggestions [see GA's 1851-3-9].
The death of [Charles] König having created a vacancy at the British Museum, JH recommends that not only Richard Owen but also George Waterhouse be given very serious consideration for the position.
About the location of Julius Caesar's landing in Britain and the location of subsequent battles.
Is enclosing the revised sheets to save time. Suggestions regarding these. Is sending his tidal paper to Airy for his perusal.
Thanks for JH's suggestions, which will be incorporated. Comments on various patents.
Thanks for EE's 'Orations and Speeches.' Recalls first meeting EE at Cambridge. Praises Harvard Observatory and W. C. Bond's discovery of an interior Saturnian ring. Notes that William R. Dawes had independently discovered this ring. Encourages EE to attend the Great Exhibition.
Suggests a slight change in WW's paper in JH's Admiralty Manual (2nd ed.).
Enclosing the tickets. Hopes the whiskey will be good.
Thanks MF for sending a 'healing liquid.'