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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.
Discusses problems with his paper on ethnology for JH's Admiralty Manual. Asks JH for fuller information on what is needed in JP's paper.
Sorry JH's family has influenza. Encloses letter from [John] Lefroy regarding actinometers.
Has received his parcel and will pay particular attention to the points raised. Regarding using and corrections for the barometer. Will send manuscript to the Admiralty.
Asks GB to convey gratitude to JH for AB's receipt of JH's Cape Results.