R.S.L. sent JH's ['On the Algebraic Expression of the Number of Partitions...' (1850)], asking HW to judge its merits for publication in R.S.P.T.
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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.
R.S.L. sent JH's ['On the Algebraic Expression of the Number of Partitions...' (1850)], asking HW to judge its merits for publication in R.S.P.T.
George Peacock is seriously ill; Charles Lyell urged JH to see a hippopotamus that had been brought to London; news of family and friends.
Sending proofs. Will see that he has altered a few words here and there. Mrs. Jones's health has improved and she talks of going to Richmond.
Comments on the Royal Commission on the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the possibility, favored at Cambridge, that JH would serve on that committee.
Gratitude that Louisa sustained her resolution and resisted temptation. Trust mother [MBH] if in doubt.
Invitation to dinner next Wednesday.
Agrees to serve on proposed commission of enquiry into state of Cambridge University, provided that JH may resign if enquiry lasts more than one year.
Describes JH's decimal coinage system as he would like to see it introduced.
Review of JH's paper [see HW's 1850-6-1] renewed HW's interest in 4- and 5-partitions of numbers. Will complete paper on combinations during vacation.
Favorable report to R.S.L. on JH's paper. Suggests minor changes. Verified only methods, not numerical values. Shows more general treatment of partitions than one that JH developed.
Does not want JH to enquire into the University of Oxford. JH may resign at the end of the year.
Has the two copies of the book reserved for JH and Lady Herschel. Will send them later.
Would like JH's opinion on the layout of his page.
Invites JH to come to see the flowering plants in Syon gardens.
Margaret Herschel will avail herself of the offer [see AP's 1850-6-9]; inquires what is happening to the letters from AP's father that JH had given to AP.
Has received an invitation from Algernon Percy and JH has accepted for MH and a few friends; JH has received a letter offering some lost spoons with JH's arms and crest. JH says this must be an attempt at a swindle as he has lost no such spoons, since they never existed. Urges some checking by MH. [Letter contains a note by MH asking someone to investigate on JH's behalf.]
Great distress about a letter from Charles Pritchard to the effect that JH's son William may not be ready for the entrance examination to Haileybury [to prepare for the Indian Civil Service]. JH is considering working with William to teach him Greek.
Stunned to learn that WB's letter to Edward Sabine was interpreted by B.A.A.S. committee as WB's resignation from Kew Observatory. Encloses copy of resolution terminating WB. Plans to fight it.
Note accompanying return of letters [see JH's 1850-6-9 or later].
Following another letter from Charles Pritchard [see JH's 1850-6-14], it now appears that son William's Latin is deficient; JH will work with William during William's holidays, but is concerned about interruptions, mentioning an invitation to a ball at Buckingham Palace and 'Mrs. [Julia] Cameron's Artist,' who is coming to paint JH.