JH's health good. Expects fatiguing day tomorrow. Will meet MB for dinner. Give JH's love to Margaret. William brought good news of JH's mother.
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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.
JH's health good. Expects fatiguing day tomorrow. Will meet MB for dinner. Give JH's love to Margaret. William brought good news of JH's mother.
Hears that the editors of Encyclopaedia Metropolitana have taken exception to JH's plan to write a work on Light for the Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Gives his views why the works should not conflict.
Remains unconvinced by JG's explanatory note on imaginary logarithms, but will pass paper on to 'more capable hands' in the R.S.L.
JG's paper was read to the R.S.L. on 13 Dec. [1828]. An assessment of it is now being made concerning its publishability, the report to be given to the R.S.L. Council.
Was pleased to recently admit Capt. [Francis] Beaufort as WH's proxy in Astronomical Society.
JH asks for a large oil portrait of CH, the size of his father's.
Rejoices to hear TH is a candidate for the Professorship of Astronomy at Edinburgh University. His astronomical work has been of great assistance to JH, especially his detection of the reasons for the error in the Greenwich Observations.
Wishing to maintain good opinion of public, JH cautiously recommends that a certain passage be omitted from a monthly notice in the Nautical Almanac.
The Council of the R.S.L. has asked JH to be the referee of JG's paper on logarithms, and JH disagrees with JG in a fundamental way. JH therefore asks JG to withdraw the paper and publish it elsewhere.
Regrets will be unable to join WB's party at Oxford.
Can CB come down on Sunday to see about the machine?
Asks about a servant JH is considering hiring to accompany JH on JH's trip to the Continent.
Appears to have refused an offer of a payment or position.
Invites WW to JH's wedding. Asks him to come early to meet the bride's family.
A note of praise for Margaret Stewart [JH's fiancée] as a covering note for an enclosed 6pp letter from JH's cousin, Mary Baldwin, to CH, describing Margaret and her family.
Pays bill for a palladium chain. May wish to purchase another object [another palladium chain?].
Has some difficulty in producing his article on Light for the Cabinet Cyclopaedia as the publishers of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana consider it would be harmful to their own publication.
Accepts arrangement proposed by DL. JH will write a volume on astronomy [Treatise Astr.], but will need time. 14852
Explains that he does not wish to be a member of the new Board of Longitude; wishes instead to devote his energies to his research. Is leaving to travel for some months [with his bride]; cannot attend committee meetings during this period.
Is leaving London for many months and would therefore like his name removed from the Council of the Royal Society, and also his Vice-presidency to be terminated. Would like his name removed from the glass sub-committee.