Provides final intended structure of the nebula catalogue page [see GA's 1862-4-26].
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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.
Provides final intended structure of the nebula catalogue page [see GA's 1862-4-26].
Thanks JH for favorable notice of his play. Sends sample of D. G. Rossetti's translation of Dante's Vita nuova.
Has received notice from the Foreign Office that the Russian Government has sanctioned the establishment of a magnetic and meteorological observatory at Pekin.
Sending him R. J. Mann's letter. Mann could call to see him if convenient. News of her children.
Would like to include JH's name among those proposed for honorary degrees at Cambridge when he becomes Chancellor of the University.
JH's reply to WC's 1862-4-21.
Sent his paper on probabilities a few days ago. Shows how his own method is different from that of L. A. J. Quetelet. Sends a poem.
Many thanks for the hexameters. Comments on these and the meter of English poetry.
Acknowledges receipt of [JH's Cape Results].
Printing 1000 copies of JH's Catalogue [of Nebulae]. Please transfer funds to GA to cover expenses.
Disappointed that EC could not visit Collingwood in February while in Tunbridge Wells to visit daughter, Mrs. Arthur Warre. Leaving for London to see Exhibition.
Received £10 for cost of reducing JH's 'Catalogue of Nebulae.' Send description of catalogue.
Please send receipt for £20.
Two casks of wine will be sent today to JH at Collingwood.
Thanks for HT's St. Clement's Eve. Has been reading it with much interest. Praises it.
Reports the disappearance of a nebula seen by William Herschel in Coma Berenices, but which H. L. d'Arrest did not locate in 1850.
Responds to WW's comments on JH's Iliad translation. Is preparing a 'General Index Catalogue of Nebulae,' with help from computists supplied by G. B. Airy. Asks WW to recommend JH's son Alexander for a professorship at the Andersonian University of Glasgow.
Sends, along with comments, JH's translation of part of Book II of Homer's Iliad. Is avoiding consulting other translations.
Thanks for a report by RF; comments on barometric readings.
Regarding water in the atmosphere. Effect of the moon on clouds. Some of the curiosities seen by his son while at the Embassy in Japan, including a device for giving warnings of earthquakes. Intends to show combinations of wind currents.