Complains of delay in receiving mail, which was addressed to Colnbrook but misdirected to Abingdon and to Marlow.
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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.
Complains of delay in receiving mail, which was addressed to Colnbrook but misdirected to Abingdon and to Marlow.
Hopes JH will meet CB and Francis Baily in the near future to discuss arrangements for the Astronomical Society.
Regarding W. T. Brande's attack on the Astronomical Society. Joseph Banks and his opposition to CB. Recent happenings in the Astronomical Society. Thanks for the volumes.
Regarding W. T. Brande's recent attack on the Astronomical Society. The Board of Longitude and its dealings with CB. Has met Henry Warburton recently.
Regarding the printing of the report and sanction of council. Details several points on which he requires guidance. New observatories in India. Can JH dine with him on Thursday?
Gratitude for election to Astronomical Society. Notes on double star Zeta Orionis. Regards to James South.
Reports to HW, director of the observatory at Åbo, on observations, made by a variety of British astronomers, of the solar eclipse of 7 September 1820.
AB was elected to new Astronomical Society. Extracts from 11 Feb. 1821 letter to C. F. Gauss.
HO was elected associate of Astronomical Society. Prize for 1821 relates to Saturn's satellites.
Announces election of JD as associate member of the Astronomical Society. [In a postscript,] JH states that the Society's prize for next year will be on the theory of the motions of Saturn's satellites.
CG has been elected associate of the Astronomical Society. Hopes the benefits will be mutual. Details of the prize subject for the present year. Has read CG's communications on the Reichenbach circle to the Society, where it evoked great interest. Comments on this. CG's certificate has been signed by Fearon Fallows, newly appointed Cape astronomer.
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