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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.
Refers WT to reference work to check WT's experiments [see WT's 1848-2-4]. JH says he will perform no more experiments in physical optics.
Gives directions for and raises questions concerning WW's contribution to JH's Admiralty Manual.
Sends the pamphlet by W. Snow Harris on lightning conductors. May find some extracts useful for the Admiralty Manual. Also extracts from William Reid and Mr. Liddington's work on hurricanes.
Suggesting a title for the Admiralty Manual. Thinks it early to commence printing as papers may be delayed. Wording on the circular may do for the preface.
Leopold Gmelin's Handbuch der Chemie contains all JH requires. If he does not have access to it will send it to the R.S.L. for him.
Lists a number of people JH called on but all were out. Received a gold medal with the head of the King of the Netherlands on it. Also received a 'very superb and truly Imperial' ring from 'the Duke.' [This, presumably, is the diamond ring he received from the Emperor of Austria.]