Compliments JH's 'Half Dozen Propositions on the Gold Coinage.' Hopes these produce changes in handling of gold. Belgian calico is competing with English calico and producing economic distress in Manchester.
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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.
Compliments JH's 'Half Dozen Propositions on the Gold Coinage.' Hopes these produce changes in handling of gold. Belgian calico is competing with English calico and producing economic distress in Manchester.
Just received another copy of JH's 'Half a Dozen Propositions Respecting the Gold Coinage' from son Henry Hardcastle. These should create problems for Chancellor of Exchequer. Hopes to understand these before Parliamentary discussion on gold currency begins.
Will put JH's paper ['Half Dozen Propositions on the Gold Coinage'] at Reform Club, [United] Oxford Club, and Cambridge [University] Club. Father [J. A. Hardcastle] will do same at Brooks's Club. Suggests that JH also send copy to Athenaeum.
Second reading of metric bill in Parliament was postponed to 8 June. PH will delay publication of JH's article in Saturday Review to coincide with public interest in bill.
Is sending on G. G. Stokes instructions about polarization; several expeditions have left for more southerly locations to observe the upcoming solar eclipse.
Wants to print JH's 'Half a Dozen Propositions Respecting the Gold Coinage' as conclusion to coinage controversy being published by governor of Bank of England. Asks for clarification on several points in Propositions. Hubbard is working to improve assay results at Bank.
Suggests alterations to JH's 'Half a Dozen Propositions Respecting the Gold Coinage' before this is added to Bank of England's publication on coinage controversy. Pleased by testimony of U.S. assay master [W. E. Du Bois].
Secretary to Bank of England will soon write to JH for permission to include JH's revised 'Half Dozen Propositions Regarding the Gold Coinage' at end of Bank's collection of papers on coinage controversy.
Received copy of JH's 'Half Dozen Propositions Regarding the Gold Coinage.' Does not agree with JH's last proposition. England will soon be only European nation not using international coinage. Expects that new difficulties for 'Mr. [Robert] Lowe's scheme' will be caused by France.
Forwards letter from G. A. Erman to JH and two papers by Erman. AM wants to visit JH to learn of prospects for Erman before AM leaves soon for zoological and magnetic observations in Malay Archipelago.
Will visit JH on 27 May.
Apologizes for delay in responding to JH. Wrote to JH yesterday about AM's plan to visit Collingwood.
Enthusiastically approves of JH's 'Half Dozen Propositions Respecting Gold Coinage.' Will distribute copies at Carlton Club.
Will send B.A.A.S. grant for £40 directly to G. A. Erman for reduction of Gaussian constant unless WS hears differently from JH.
Acknowledges receipt of 'present' from [H. J. R.] Petersen.
Acknowledges receipt of letter and papers from G. A. Erman.
B.A.A.S. in Liverpool approved £50 grant to G. A. Erman, to be administered by Erman and JH, for computation of Gaussian constant for 1839.
Explains error in B.A.A.S. report on grant for G. A. Erman. Will notify George Griffith.
Requests testimonial from JH to assist FW in obtaining better appointment on Society's library staff.
Writes to support grant request from Georg Erman of Berlin to allow Erman to do calculations on magnetism observations from circumnavigation of world.