Thanks JH for news of newly formed Astronomical Society; will be pleased to be a foreign correspondent for it.
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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.
Thanks JH for news of newly formed Astronomical Society; will be pleased to be a foreign correspondent for it.
Arrangements for paying dues to the Royal Society of Edinburgh; some comments about light passing through crystals.
Clarifies areas of disagreement with DB in JH's explanation of the results of colored tints of light passing through polarizing crystals.
Thanks for the extract of his paper. Comments on this and his own discoveries on the polarization of light. His fees for the articles will pay his subscription to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Sending all his papers on the deviations of tints, suitably amended to give DB due acknowledgement. Queries regarding some of DB's statements. Supports his theories in a new paper he has written for the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Invitation to dine with them; Sir Walter Scott is expected as well.
Invitation to spend the morning with them on the day they are expecting Sir Walter Scott.
Further invitation to breakfast with them and Sir Walter Scott.
Invitation to dine with them and Sir Walter Scott.
Regarding the printing and distribution of JH's Address.
Is sending copies of the Address and circular, and two copies of his own pamphlets.
Has sent the Address to the printers for the corrections to be made. Committee meeting on Tuesday next. Hopes JH can come.
Is sending the books. News of the Committee meeting. Relations of the Astronomical Society with Sir Joseph Banks and the R.S.L.
Is making arrangements for the Committee meeting. Will bring some copies of the Eclipse for JH.
Is grateful for his letter and also for sending the regulations of the Astronomical Society on which he sees the names of many distinguished men. Accepts with gratitude the offer of his book.
The Lucasian professorship is vacant. Thinks JH is worthy of this position. Would like to be proposed a member of the Astronomical Society.
Has received the rules of the Astronomical Society. Gives full details about himself.
Returns the polarizing apparatus by the Windsor coach, and is grateful for the loan of it. Hopes to supply Dr. Jackson with a suitable instrument. Sending a paper on parallel plates.
Sends paper on photospheres to be read to Astronomical Society.
JH presented JP's paper on photospheres to Society.