Has forwarded JH's letter to U. J. J. Leverrier. Thanks that the time has come for an analysis of the work of William Herschel.
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.
Has forwarded JH's letter to U. J. J. Leverrier. Thanks that the time has come for an analysis of the work of William Herschel.
Regrets his lateness in writing his request, but would JH write an obituary notice of F. W. Bessel? Does not expect it to be ready before the Anniversary meeting.
Informing SC that U. J. J. Leverrier has asked JH to accept the Copley Medal on his behalf.
Gives comparisons between some of Wilhelm Struve's observations of double stars and his own. Would like to purchase JH's lens if he does not require it himself. Regrets the weather was so bad when JH's daughters visited him.
Is grateful for the lens JH sent. Puzzled by the discrepancies in JH's results. They were pleased to receive his children.
Could he help with respect to the readings for the satellite of Saturn?
Comments on calculation of star locations, and how to make special observations.
Has been planning the new duties for officers of the R.A.S. now that Francis Baily is dead. Hopes JH will consent to become president now, in order to give the prestige of the Society a boost.
Has secured the permission JE requested to allow [Karl I.] Gerhardt to get transcripts of letters held by R.S.L. from G. W. Leibniz to Henry Oldenburg. [Continued 1846-11-6] Mentions controversy over discovery of Neptune. Thanks JE for publications sent.
Informs JH about WW's forthcoming collection of hexameter verse translations. Laments that the discovery of the new planet [Neptune] did not occur at Cambridge.
Gives WW permission to print JH's translation of 'The Walk' by Friedrich Schiller. Comments further on the acceptance of pentametric and hexametric verse by the English, and includes a few verses of JH's own. JH well along in having his Cape Results in print.
Gives corrections to the proof copy of JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.' Comments on the failure in England to discover the new planet [Neptune] and on his own and James Challis's role in the controversy that erupted.
Suggests final revisions to JH's hexameter translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.' Informs JH of the other authors of verses in the volume.
Forwarding a letter of Thomas Maclear. Has just left the Cape. Comments on the conditions there and outlines some of the difficulties.