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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.
Is gratified by the mention of JM's name in JH's B.A.A.S. address, but thinks that JH has made a grave error in his castigation of the work of Auguste Comte. Comments on his theories.
Would like to send the Athenaeum to Comte together with a copy of JH's last note. Comments on the theory of Auguste Comte. Will be thankful to receive comments on JM's own book.
Informs JH that JH together with several others will be responsible for the distribution of the B.A.A.S. catalogue of stars.
Do as JM suggests. Further comments on JH's dispute with the theories of Auguste Comte.
Has nothing more to do than to thank him for his explicit letter. Will forward a copy of this letter to Auguste Comte.
Hears from his publisher that a second edition of JM's System of Logic is being prepared for the press, so would welcome any suggestions from JH regarding alterations or amendments.
Is grateful for JH's letter. Has already had criticisms of the chapter, which JH mentions. Will reconsider it.
Agrees with JH that the price of the B.A.A.S. catalogue of stars should be kept moderate to achieve the widest useful distribution.
Has communicated with [John] Phillips, and indicates that the committee will take responsibility for its actions [in distributing star catalogues?].
S. J. A. Compton [Lord Northampton] has addressed a private letter to Robert Peel [see GA's 1845-10-9].
Has collected information about coal deposits, but GG is very troubled that the committee [coal map committee of the B.A.A.S] has not yet met and has established no procedures. Describes some of the information GG has at hand.
AS JH understands the matter [see GG's 1845-12-23], GG is the only knowledgeable member of the committee, and so it will be up to GG to present information and propose some means of moving ahead. JH makes some critical remarks about the nature of B.A.A.S. committees.
Returns to JH, and comments on, the distribution lists [for the B.A.A.S. star catalogue].
Hears from the Dean of Ely that JH is busy writing his B.A.A.S. oration. Sent a new volume yesterday. Wished JH had been at RM's soiree on Wednesday.
Robert Peel has suggested that the Admiralty has money available to pay for improvements in scientific instruments of value to navigation.
Criticizing the present system of Education at the Cape.
Sending one of his own books for the R.A.S. and one of his memoirs, also one for JH. Is lacking part of his set of the Memoirs of the Astronomical Society.
Is not clear what the statement from Robert Peel means [see JH's 1845-9-29 or earlier].
Offers to make drawings of the moon's surface for illustrating JH's paper on that subject to be presented to the R.A.S.
Encourages GA to ask the Admiralty about the implications of Robert Peel's statements [see JH's 1845-9-29 or earlier].