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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.
Asks what AD knows about the Andersonian Institution in Glasgow, which JH's son Alexander is considering as a place of employment. JH then deals with a problem in probability theory, and concludes the letter with a riddle.
Comments on several nebulae, and on GA's receiving an honorary degree [from Cambridge University].
Accepts an invitation to dine with GA, and adds comments about problems JH is having with his vision.
Sending JH some crystals for examination. The quartz crystals show spirals. Invites JH to supply information concerning the crystals.
Thinks application of heat will not harm carbonate of lead crystal, and urges JH to 'boil, torture, or otherwise put it to the question in whatever way' JH sees fit.
Asks for JH's help in defending current patent laws in Parliament.
States that the current patent laws are unjust and would prefer to see them repealed rather than maintained.
Sends sketch of reflecting camera and describes its composition. Can now make reflectors under 7 inches very inexpensively.
Wants suggestions as to whom R.S.L. should award medals.
Tells who received R.S.L. medals. Discusses possibility that [Henri] Regnault's recent work deserves Copley Medal. Wants JH's opinions. JH's letter concerning Melbourne telescope was sent to Lord Rosse.
Lord Rosse agrees with JH regarding Melbourne telescope. His only objection to proposed increase in size is because of the added expense.
Sends [William] Lassell's reply and JH's own letter regarding telescope at Melbourne for review. All will be forwarded to Lord Rosse. Also sends lithograph.
Discusses proposed Melbourne telescope, including [William] Lassell's proposed mounting and its implications for observing nebulae.
Discusses proposed Melbourne telescope, opinions of various scientists, and projected costs of construction.
Sends [William] Lassell's letter regarding Melbourne telescope. Pleased with scientific memoirs received from Harvard College.
JH will be pleased with Mr. de Souza's and [Charles] Smallwood's letters. American and Havana instruments were dispatched. [Hermann] Schlagintweit has made interesting magnetic survey of India.
Writes to point out an error in a pamphlet he had written. Discusses plans for upcoming trip to the north.
Thanks JH for translation of Iliad. AS's health has been poor. Invites the Herschels to Norwich.
Discusses a depression on a heliograph, which he cannot reconcile with [Frederick] Howlett's observations. Conjectures over-exposure in printing may be the culprit.
Sending autographs. Discusses the faculae on the eastern limb and the reception of JH's note at the R.A.S. [Frederick] Howlett is drawing a group of sunspots.