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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.
Has no doubt that any improvements JH suggests should be published. [John?] Taylor has borrowed Holtzmann's pamphlet, which will be sent as soon as returned. Karl Holtzmann's formula for air appears quite out. Gabriel Lamé evades the question. If JH writes anything on his calorimeter hopes he will mention the various questions raised.
Lists 17 foreign and six English scientists to whom ES sent JH's letter and Toronto volume.
Judges the unfinished portrait of Francis Baily a faithful rendering, although he is portrayed without the glasses, which he usually wore. Fears the intractability of [W. S.] Stratford and its implications for the workings of the R.A.S. Council. On the dispute between [W. R.] Dawes and [George] Bishop and how to resolve it.