Has been very busy; otherwise he would have answered his friendly letter earlier. Observations on tourmaline. Double refraction.
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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.
Has been very busy; otherwise he would have answered his friendly letter earlier. Observations on tourmaline. Double refraction.
Queries regarding the refraction of light in crystals.
Answers to JB's queries on the refraction of light through crystals, and Newton's rings.
Fears that a letter written to him in November may not have reached him. Will send him a copy of his paper of colors. A Philosophical Society has been formed at Cambridge.
Has received his letter written in November a little late. Observations on refraction and allied subjects.
Further information on his experiments with refraction in various crystals, especially topaz.
Regarding refraction in crystals of apophyllite and quartz.
Discussion of his latest experiments on polarization.
Concerning polarization of light rays in crystals of quartz.
Regarding his recent experiments with light in crystals of alum etc.
Possesses JH's tract on light. Would like his comments on various phenomena.
Was very pleased to receive another of JB's works. Glad to be associated in his revelations concerning molecular and polarization powers. Recall their past meetings and hopes to renew acquaintance in Paris at some future date.
Regarding the missing publications of the Academy that JH has not received. Further regarding polarization in molecules.
Has pleasure in informing JH that a parcel of publications of the Academy is being forwarded to him.
Thanks JB for letter to JH at the Cape. Requests JB to provide introductions for Mr. Stanford, who is making statistical inquiries in France.