Has now sent the last of the nebula observations to be reduced for printing [see GA's 1862-4-16].
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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 now sent the last of the nebula observations to be reduced for printing [see GA's 1862-4-16].
Sends JH a copy of the form to be used for reduced observations [see JH's 1862-4-17].
Printing 1000 copies of JH's Catalogue [of Nebulae]. Please transfer funds to GA to cover expenses.
Approves of form for reduced observations [see GA's 1862-4-24] and sends GA payment against expenses.
Acknowledges receipt of payment [see JH's 1862-4-25]; asks for final approval of printing structure for the nebula catalogue.
Received £10 for cost of reducing JH's 'Catalogue of Nebulae.' Send description of catalogue.
Provides final intended structure of the nebula catalogue page [see GA's 1862-4-26].
Seeks clarification of the position of one of the listed nebulae [see JH's 1862-4-30].
Comments on several nebulae, and on GA's receiving an honorary degree [from Cambridge University].
Provides the information in response to GA's request for the position of one nebula [see GA's 1862-5-27].
More corrections of errors [in reduction of JH's catalogue of nebulae].
More corrections of errors [in reduction of JH's catalogue of nebulae].
As GA is about to leave on holiday, he brings JH up to date on the state of the nebula calculations [see JH's 1862-5-28].
Sends £10 to GA, exhausting grant from R.S.L. GA's estimate of 5600 nebulae was too high. Recommends asking R.S.L. for additional £50.
The R.S.L. grant is almost used up; how much more money will be needed for the nebula catalogue [see GA's 1862-6-25]?
Attempts a more accurate estimate of work to be done on nebula catalogue [see JH's 1862-6-27].
In view of the additional costs, should the nebula catalogue be reduced to a 'working list', or should JH go back to the R.S.L. for more money [see GA's 1862-6-29]?
After collecting and reducing all nebula observations by JH and William Herschel, JH objects to GA's suggestion that JH should pay for calculations needed to prepare catalogue of nebulae. Hesitates to request additional funds from R.S.L.
Ferry delayed by 19 July hurricane. Studying classical granite veins in Glen Tilt under [J. D.] Forbes's tutelage. Not disturbed by cost overrun of JH's catalogue of nebulae, but sorry that JH is 'so much vexed.' Simply tell R.S.L. committee that JH needs more money; do not worry about scruples.
Seeks state of the nebula catalogue so an accurate estimate of the remaining costs may be made [see GA's 1862-8-1].