Mr. Grant has just given him JH's note. Regarding Col. Parres's [?] helioscope.
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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.
Mr. Grant has just given him JH's note. Regarding Col. Parres's [?] helioscope.
Elaborates on JH's questions concerning the Mediterranean. Refers him to Capt. [T. A. B.] Spratt.
Would support the establishment of Colonial magnetic and meteorological observatories if Edward Sabine were to continue to study the observations made [see GA's 1858-1-29].
Enjoyed visit of Louisa [Herschel Marshall]. Wants copies of JH's new articles. Is witnessing a solar eclipse, in which half the disc was covered, as she writes.
Carrington will be communicating with JH regarding Ignatio Porro's instruments. Pleased to hear of the projected new edition of JH's Outlines Astr. Is engaged translating D. F. J. Arago's Astronomy. Points out omissions in this work. Comments on the planet Neptune.
Regarding the recent eclipse of the sun. Has not been able to guess all his riddles.
About viewing the solar eclipse, and the many errors in G. B. Airy's Lectures.
Have looked up the deeds and will make a schedule of them.
Expresses his views, generally supportive, on the question of the continuation of magnetic observations at various colonial stations.
Asks JH to sign a petition to allow a parishioner to marry his late wife's sister.
Sending some publications to show the kind of work he is doing. Has read JH's Admiralty Manual and congratulates him on its authority. Has been reading J. P. Espy's Fourth Report. Note of W. J. S. Pullen's soundings in the South Atlantic.
Comments on wind and current charts JH has received from RF.
Replies to specific requests by committee for summary of benefits from research in terrestrial magnetism and meteorology and for ES's opinion on continuance of observatories. [JH annotation: Routing list to G. B. Airy, George Peacock, and William Whewell.]
Sends proofs of editor's notes from vol. 4 of [Elizabeth J. Sabine's] translation of Alexander von Humboldt's] Cosmos. Assumes that JH and magnetic committee members all have copies of 'Introduction' to vol. 3 of Toronto observations. Managed to clear up 'mystification' in J. B. Biot's account of pendulum experiments.
Comments on JH's paper on Sensorial Vision (1858). Covered some of this ground in HH's own book, Mental Physiology (1852).
After JW's 1843-45 mission to find Charles Stoddart and Arthur Conolly in Bukhara [Uzbek], JW was given poor parish in Dorsetshire. Attempting to raise £1,000 for new church and school. Would JH contribute?
Has read with much pleasure JH's dissertation on meteorology published in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Requests an English version. Sends several memoires on meteorology. Regrets not being able to send a complete set. Asks JH to send other works for the Observatory of Havana.
ES's paper on magnetic observatories in colonies is same as 'Introduction' to vol. 3 of Toronto observations. Publisher has delayed [Elizabeth J. Sabine's] translation of vol. 4 of Cosmos; please send JH's copy of 'Editor's Notes' to other members of magnetic committee. J. B. Biot intentionally subordinated English pendulum experiments to French experiments, and Alexander von Humboldt was misled.
Must hold to 1/290 as measure of ellipticity. Committee agrees to recommend continuance of magnetic observations if JH will continue to do what he has done in the past.
Asks if JF's article on glaciers is for Encyclopaedia Britannica. Requests that JF change a computational error in his copy of JH's article on meteorology.