Regarding JH's answer to his own paper on the revision of the boundaries of the constellations.
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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.
Regarding JH's answer to his own paper on the revision of the boundaries of the constellations.
Will be at the Visitation and intends to spend a few days in town. Has got the catalogue of objects for the star maps.
Can JH come to the congress on Friday?
Has invited some astronomical friends to the meeting on Friday.
Thanks for the deodar seeds sent; accepts JL's offer of some young deodar plants. Needs instructions on planting these. Does JL have a copy of JH's 'On the Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Vegetable Colours, and on Some New Photographic Processes'?
Describes a particularly brilliant aurora, which JH observed from Collingwood on the night of 6 May.
Encourages AE to consider translating some mathematical works; additional comments on mathematics in general.
Has been able to obtain some deodar seeds from Ireland. Sends them, together with some seeds of the Himalayan cypress. Hopes they will prove a success.