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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.
Reports that rainfall information is not as complete as should be. Describes available data from Meteorological Department. Thanks JH for comments on his work.
Forwards copies of maps to accompany JH's paper.
Requests a copy of JH's memoir on Caroline Herschel. Points out an error in the fifth edition of Outlines Astr.
Refers to a discovery made at the R.S.L., which, despite being based on 'circumstantial evidence,' convinces WS of its truth.
His book on musical science is ready and a copy will be forwarded to him later when published.
Hopes that JH will reply for the 'visitors' at the forthcoming luncheon.
Is gratified by his kind remarks on his Philosophy of Nature. Regrets he failed to give due acknowledgement to JH's work, but will redress this in the future. Regarding the probable constitution of nature.
Has dispatched Memoirs and Comptes rendus of the Academy. Regrets the delay, which is due to negligence on the part of the railway.
As editor for Griffin & Co., JW forwards latest proof for JH to check [see JW's 1860-9-22].
Asks for information about wrecks at sea and lives lost.
Thanks for a number of RF's writings; asks for more rainfall data to try to establish a relationship between rainfall and the solar cycle.
Thanks for all the material received; comments on some of RF's meteorological ideas.
Sending the quarters reports. Comments on these reports.
Has received his note. Occurs to him that the best plan would be for JH to borrow his manuscripts on rain. If he will notify him of the Railway address, he will dispatch them at once.
Has sent his rain papers from Lewisham station this morning. Is in no hurry for their return. Will send on his manuscript when he can find it.