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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.
Please sign enclosed legal document and return to Messrs. 'Praed.' CB overworked, but hopes to complete Passages from the Life of a Philosopher before Christmas.
Annual visitation of Royal Observatory by Board of Visitors will be held 6 June.
Read of JH's intention to prepare general catalogue of nebulae. Encloses list of unpublished nebulae found at Harvard over past 15 years. Finds similarity in form but difference in theory between JH's equations for curve of object glasses ['On Aberrations of Compound Lenses and Object Glasses' (1821)] and those of K. A. Steinheil and C. F. Gauss. Asks about Josef Fraunhofer's theory.
Unpublished Harvard list contains nine nebulae published in [G. F. J. A.] Auwers's catalogue of novae, because those were first discovered at Harvard. Thanks JH for pointing out two others already published, which GB will exclude from list. Admits possibility of 'illusions' in some. Asks JH to compare results in C. F. Gauss's article on achromatic object glass. Sent copy of T. H. Safford's article on companion of Sirius.
Instructions for signing and returning deed [of conveyance for Woodlands property in Hollier Trust]. [JH annotation, 19 Aug. 1863: Received and executed deed. It was witnessed by JH's son William, now recently returned from Bengal and resident at Hawkhurst for next three years. Returned deed to Few & Stamford.]
Received deed of conveyance for Woodlands property, in Hollier Trust, executed by JH. Will advise JH when money has been received.
Sign enclosed authorization for Few & Co. to obtain Hollier Trust deeds from bank. Deeds will be exchanged for £1000.
Submits WH's ideas on moon's influence on weather. JH's son Alexander owes WH a letter.
Further to dealing with report on William Hopkins's paper [see GS's 1862-12-24].
Received JH's translation, which is better than any blank verse can do. Invites JH to visit Lyells.
Asks JH to comment on the scientific merit of a large number of plates on solar spots sent to R.S.L. by Richard Carrington.
Responds to GS's 1863-2-20, strongly recommending the support of the R.S.L. to defray part of the cost of publishing Richard Carrington's work.
Acknowledges receipt of JH's 1863-3-2, and another dealing with disagreement with William Hopkins [see GS's 1862-12-24 & JH's 1863-1-30].
Returns paper of G. B. Airy, Astronomer Royal, and submits report on it.
Comments on some communications with G. B. Airy, Astronomer Royal; complains he has received no formal acknowledgement of large number of manuscripts deposited with R.S.L.
Acknowledges receipt of comments regarding Melbourne University telescope.
Observations of cloud patterns after storms.
Proposes modification to balloon gondola for scientific research.
Explains how to detect errors in catalogued positions of stars. List of new nebulae in [G. F. J. A.] Auwers's catalogue.
Proposes hypothetical problem in physics of gravitation involving three unequal bodies falling equal distances. Asks JH to respond in Good Works.