Discusses changes in system of awarding R.S.L. Royal Medals.
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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.
Discusses changes in system of awarding R.S.L. Royal Medals.
A Mr. Patton has applied for a position as astronomer. Is he 'conversant with practical observing'?
Thanks JH for some historical information on events of the first century A.D. [for TL's study on the life of St. Paul].
Letter to accompany a gift of the first part of FB's popular psychology work.
Is sending for his perusal his own observations on the zodiacal light for the first quarter of the year. Comments on this.
Outlining the influence of the recent aurora on the zodiacal light.
Packet and documents are ready. When can he call?
Letter of thanks and good wishes.
Letter of thanks and good wishes.
Has addressed a letter to the East India Company, which has raised a storm.
Returns [WB's] paper on the zodiacal light. Notes error and offers JH's ideas about light's source.
Would be pleased to receive JH's paper. His own house is still sad and silent.
Comments on a number of possibilities for the post at Trivandrum [see JH's 1850-3-20].
Thanks GA for his 1850-4-1, and provides details of a likely candidate.