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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.
Book he intended to write has had to be postponed as he has been asked to prepare a second edition of his Weather Book. Sends a proof of the revision of the 18th chapter.
Sending a paper to replace the one sent previously. Comments on the effect of the moon on the atmosphere. Wrote his Weather Book in a great hurry. Regrets the expression 'lines of force' but had the approbation of several practical electricians.
Thanks for his opinion; it will save him from exposure, but it is too late to get the book altered. Comments on some parts of JH's book on meteorology. The atmosphere appears to be smaller in extent than John Dalton conceived.
Sends three pamphlets by Lieut. John Maclear. Was very interested in JH's 'Words" for January.
Ideas respecting gravitating lunisolar action on the atmosphere—as apart from that of heat or other influence.
Remains unconvinced by RF's ideas on gravitating lunisolar action on the atmosphere.
Asks for meteorological data that RF may have collected.
Asks for information about wrecks at sea and lives lost.
Thanks for a number of RF's writings; asks for more rainfall data to try to establish a relationship between rainfall and the solar cycle.
Thanks for all the material received; comments on some of RF's meteorological ideas.
Comments on RF's writing on drifting ice; comments extensively on RF's ideas about air circulation.
Comments on difficulties JH finds in some of RF's writings.
Comments on RF's ideas on the gravitational effect of the sun and moon on the earth's atmosphere.
On the effect of the earth passing through a comet's tail.
Comments on whether a rainbow could be reflected to the eye from water. Comets approach quite near to the earth on many occasions. Regarding the development of South America.
Thanks for RF's daily barometric reports in the Times; comments on RF's investigation of the 'Royal Charter' storm.
Comments on barometric readings and the signaling process.
Thanks for a report by RF; comments on barometric readings.
Comments on the pressure of the atmosphere; is convinced of the effect of the full moon on weather.
On the dynamics of atmospheric pressure and the pressure on clouds and birds.