Thanks for volume three of WW's Plato edition. Responds to WW's comments on JH's translation of the first section of Homer's Iliad.
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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.
Thanks for volume three of WW's Plato edition. Responds to WW's comments on JH's translation of the first section of Homer's Iliad.
Has sent an R.S.L. membership application certificate for GA to sign and send on.
Is preparing a list of nebulae and their positions; does GA think anyone would print them?
[Responding to JH's 1862-1-23], states that R.A.S. finances not sufficient to publish JH's 'Catalogue of Nebulae,' but R.S.L. is 'rolling in wealth.' Work could be done at [Greenwich Observatory], where GA is already printing 'Skeleton Forms for Precessions.' Forwarded R.S.L. certificate for [E. J.] Lowe to W. H. Smyth.
Weather has been so interesting lately that he is emboldened to send the enclosed chart. Department is progressing in spite of U. J. J. Leverrier's protest. Picked up one of JH's pamphlets published at the Cape. Sends one of the Meteorological Manuals issued by the Dept.
Is grateful to JH for proposing EL as a candidate for the R.S.L. Has been experimenting with ozone; comments on his observations.
Comments on barometric readings and the signaling process.
A daughter of Thomas Maclear is to spend several days with JH and his family before returning to the Cape.
Suggests preparing an estimate of the cost of preparing and printing a nebula catalogue so JH can approach the R.S.L. [see GA's 1862-1-24].
Sending him [Balfour] Stewart's certificate in the hopes that he will add his name to it. Hopes to show him his experiments when he has the time.
Arranged for Maggie Maclear to be met after her arrival in England and for her trip back to Cape Town.
Estimates seven weeks and £10 to compute JH's nebulae data. Suggests JH use new 'Skeleton Form.'
Has been considering how to incorporate JH's suggestions regarding the insertion of the Julian dates in the Nautical Almanac. Would like his views. Quotes extracts from a letter of U. J. J. Leverrier.
On a static measure for gravity.
Is going to Kashmir for a geological survey. Wonders if while he is there he can carry out any meteorological research.
Notes ingenuity of JB's gravimetric balance. Astonished that it did not occur to anyone before. [Letter continues 5 Feb.:] Suggestion for improving torsion thread arrangement.
Returned JH's 'original sheets of nebulae.' Kept sheets of calculations. Will write about money accounts later. Lord Palmerston's communication about Thomas Maclear's pension.
Comments on AH's chemical results and on an apparently anomalous sample of common salt being sent by JH; sends AH £5 for the month.
Many years ago he read a paper to the Royal Scottish Society of Arts on the merits of JH's telescope compared with that of William Parsons (3rd Earl of Rosse); this paper has never been printed. Gives details of his own optical work.
Hears that his chance of success at the R.S.L. is good. [John?] Lee will forward the certificate to JH for presentation to the R.S.L.