Clarifies meeting details [see JH's 1853-2-27].
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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.
Clarifies meeting details [see JH's 1853-2-27].
Does not believe that the technical weights of the Bank of England should be given the same legal status as primary, and official, weights, measures, and coinage [see GA's 1853-2-11].
Wants to visit the Royal Mint; the coinage/weight question is more complex than GA imagined [see GA's 1853-3-15]; seeks JH's opinion on part of a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Understands JH's position [see JH's 1853-3-26]; expects the report will be taken to Parliament.
Asks JH to let an examination be made of the standard pound kept at the Royal Mint [see WM's 1853-6-8].
Some difficulty about locating a particular standard pound weight, and the letter requesting the use of it [see JH's 1853-6-20].
Is arranging a meeting to seal up and deposit one set of standards [see GA's 1853-6-21].
Seeks instructions about return of the measures to the Royal Mint.
Drafting the Standards Commission report is taking up all of GA's spare time.
Writes to JH to re-arrange a time for a meeting.
A note accompanying the first draft of the report of the Standards Commission, with a request for comment.
Does not know of the details of French or American coinage, but Augustus de Morgan has undertaken to find someone to help JH with this problem.
Is waiting for JH's comments on the first draft of the Standards Commission report [see GA's 1853-9-8].
Please send comments on the first draft of the Standards Commission report [see GA's 1853-12-22]; GA wants to prepare a second draft.
Doubts that proscribing certain weight usages will be effective, unless the users feel a need to change [see JH's 1854-2-14]
Wants to meet with JH and W. H. Miller at the Exchequer to examine their standard equipment.
A note accompanying a copy of the second draft of the Standards Commission report [see GA's 1854-2-14].
A notice of meeting of the Standards Committee supervising the standardized weighing and measuring, indicating the need to bring to the meeting members expense sheets.
A note accompanying a letter for T. S. Rice [Lord Monteagle], which JH is to sign and forward.
Writes to MH to insist that JH not come to the meeting [see JH's 1854-3-23].