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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.
Mr. Malby has obtained copyright of 36' globe and intends to lay down nebulae, also double stars. Is JH's work [on double stars] likely to be finished soon? Should wait for this work.
Takes great interest in Mr. Malby's globes as he is writing an article on the uses of globes. Comments on the work of Malby.
JH has forgotten to name the day of his arrival. Can he let Elizabeth Baily know? Thinks he did the right thing in staying at Tavistock Place.
Is obliged for his list of James Dunlop. Has been reading JH's memoir of Francis Baily. Comments on this.
Sending the note for JH's son on how to decimalize fractions of a pound. JH's memoir has gone to press. Would like details of JH's work on the Southern stars for the Annual Report.
Thanks AD for having pointed out an error in one of JH's papers.
Wants to set up a benefit club; for mutual insurance of artisans, etc., and is asking AD for actuarial information.
Questions about actuarial information in AD's 1844-1-30.
On poor attendance at R.A.S. dinner, and on the results of unrestricted population growth.
Details of printing the policy for the benefit society.
More details of the benefit society.
More details of the benefit society.
More details of the benefit society.
Discussion of actuarial tables for the benefit society.
Under pressure of time, JH is anxious to resolve the question of appropriate actuarial tables.
Corrections to the actuarial tables.
Further emendations regarding printing the policy of the benefit society.
Thanks for all the help with the benefit society material.
The benefit society is launched and all is well.
Forwards a copy of the rules and regulations of the benefit society, with much thanks.