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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.
The contents of JH's note has not surprised him. Encloses report of the trial for the better understanding of JH. Will be at Upton in a day or so.
The practice at the Royal Observatory is to compare proof copies with calculation sheets [see JH's 1864-2-5].
As JH has made minor changes in many calculated results, the proof sheets cannot be easily compared with the calculation sheets [see GA's 1864-2-6].
Further regarding the forthcoming meeting of the Standards Commission. Regarding JH's 'Catalogue of Nebulae.'
Informs JH about train service [see JH's 1864-2-5], and encourages JH to stay with GA from the night before the meeting.