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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.
Was pleased to receive JH's letter and criticisms on his book Le ciel. Comments on some of JH's criticisms.
Sends the first volume of his memoir on the Perse. Has contacted Jacques Babinet regarding experiments on variations of gravity. Comments on the work of the various researchers in this field.
An invitation to a meeting.
Enclosing a paper for JH's perusal.
Attempts to clarify claims published by John Davy concerning whether his brother Humphry Davy had in 1827 promised Charles Babbage a position as secretary of the R.S.L.
As JH has been approached by Charles Babbage for permission to publish certain portions of JH's correspondence, JH is writing to say that he gives both Babbage and JS permission to publish what they will.
Believes that John Davy's letter to the Philosophical Magazine was suggested by James South. To defend himself, CB now needs JH's permission to publish some of their correspondence.
H. J. Hollier asked General Reversionary and Investment Company (Anderson's clients) for another advance from Hollier Trust Fund. As trustee, JH is asked to sign and return enclosed receipt.
Encloses JL's weather observations over past year. Asks if uniform style exists for all observers to follow. JL's views about moon's effect on climate. Wishes Robert FitzRoy would abandon weather prognostication and concentrate on valuable daily reports.
Enclose table of GP's and JP's observations, inspired by JH's article in Jan. 1864 Good Words. Apologize for disputing JH's authority, but GP and JP found that full moon has no influence on local cloud cover.
Sends paper on earth's temperature for JH's opinion.
Offers JS's wind observations, as requested in JH's ['Weather and Weather Prophets' (1864)] in Good Words.
Encloses WW's table of meteorological data for Jan.-Dec. 1864, made in response to JH's claim that full moon influences cloud cover.
Gives CB permission to publish the portions of letters requested by him. JH tells CB that he has responded to John Davy's letter in the PM.
Discusses translating the Iliad. Discusses Emile Gautier's theory of the maculae, which does not seem to explain what they see.
Thanks PT for papers on energy. Discusses topics of the papers, including quaternions and the concept of heat equalling motion.
Sends a proof of an engraved print.
Requests JH's reflections on the deceased Wilhelm Struve. Discusses making of telescope object glass. Continues work on the optical tables.
Comments on WS's publication on sidereal chromatics. Believes validity of doctrine of three primary colors proved.
Sends, at the request of William Thomson, articles from North British Review on the topic of energy.