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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.
Informs HB that a cask of bulbs is waiting for him at the Customs House. From JH's experience of his own bulbs, urges HB to get them quickly as they will deteriorate rapidly.
Thanks JH for gift of roots from the Cape. Discusses Testimonial dinner for JH, at which JR's Royal Master [Augustus Frederick] spoke. Congratulates JH.
Asks JH to come to Oxford to receive honorary degree of D.C.L. Invites Herschels to Oxford Observatory.
Comments and expands on James MacCullagh's paper on laws of reflection and polarization in crystals.
Has read RM's note to the Morning Post correcting error in the report on the dinner [in JH's honor]. Wishes money had not been mentioned in RM's reply. Is grateful for all RM's work in arranging for the dinner.
Pleased that the Royal Irish Academy awarded its Science Medal to James MacCullagh for his paper on the "Laws of Crystalline Reflexion and Refraction;" he deems MacCullagh's essay superior to WH's "On Algebra as the Science of Pure Time.","L
Arrived in England on 19 May after a nine week voyage. Made suggestions to Lord Minto [Gilbert Elliott] concerning Cape Observatory, including Magnetic Observatory, mural circle repair, and the addition of a theodolite telescope.
Encloses official instructions to Thomas Maclear. Prices of telescopes. Remarks on caustics.
Giving his reasons for not wanting to become a Baronet.
Thanking him for his offer of a baronetcy. Matters relating to this.
In hesitating to accept the offer of a baronetcy, JH did not wish to be perceived as arguing. Now gratefully accepts that generous offer.
Regarding a baronetcy about to be conferred on JH.
Has had a long letter from Frederick Augustus (Duke of Sussex), who wishes him to accept a baronetcy. JH's comments on this.
Welcomes JH back from Cape; includes results of FB's work on geodesical measurements in East Prussia.
Thursday will suit Charles Wood and FB is writing to G. B. Airy to meet JH in (FB's) room.
The Admiralty would like JH's opinion regarding the observatory at Mauritius and any suggestions for its improvement.
Responds to request for advice on operation of the observatory established at Mauritius by John A. Lloyd. Urges it can profitably make meteorological observations and positional determinations for southern stars. Stresses the need for prompt reduction of observations.
Fulfills request for advice on the operation of the Cape Observatory. Urges, among other points, that Thomas Maclear be given a second assistant and an improved telescope and that the observatory be assigned to undertake tidal, meteorological, and magnetic observations.
Many thanks for his report on the Cape Observatory, which he will lay before the Lords of the Admiralty. Also thanks for the promised opinion on the Mauritius Observatory.
Last year he sent the diploma of the Academy of Sciences of Stockholm of which JH had been elected a member. Introduces J. A. Wahlberg, who is coming to the Cape.