Impressed by JH's [1824] drawings of earth-pillars in Botzen. Plans to visit them this year. Causes of earth-pillars. Speculates on climate changes on planet Mars.
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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.
Impressed by JH's [1824] drawings of earth-pillars in Botzen. Plans to visit them this year. Causes of earth-pillars. Speculates on climate changes on planet Mars.
Is translating Homer's Iliad and has heard a verse is missing from the standard versions. Can WM help?
Gives various references in answer to JH's queries. Further regarding climatic changes.
A note of thanks for copies of recent writings by JH and his son Alexander.
Speculations on the causes of hydrophobia. Has he seen the work of J. B. Luys on the spinal system?
Regarding a position at the Mint for his own son.
Some comments on the variation of the eccentricity of the earth's orbit, and the geography of Mars.
Proposes to visit JH at Hawkhurst.
Objections by Board of Visitors to proposed new railway tunnel near Greenwich observatory.
Doubts that JH put his approval on an article about shooting stars in the 'upper atmosphere' in The Intellectual Observer.
Requests JH sign R.S.L. certificate attesting to qualifications of H. E. L. Thuillier, AW's deputy in India. Hopes to see [JH's son] John when John returns from India.
Is sending an unpublished pamphlet on dioptric lights and would be glad of his opinions as he is claiming public recognition.
Took JH's box of specimens and had a discussion with William Logan, A. C. Ramsay, and some young surveyors, one of whom had examined JH's neighborhood. Similar rhomboids to the Irish ones have been located in Wales. Hopes to have a discussion on this subject later. Can JH give, or refer him to data, the temperature of celestial space without the sun? Returns the drawings with many thanks.
Comments on why JH gave 239 degrees F as the temperature of space. Geological specimens may be given to the Geological Society or to the Jermyn Street Museum.
Thanks for his letter regarding the dioptric lights. Gives his own views as to their importance.
Thanks for kind information regarding Christopher Hansteen. Will obtain a copy of the Admiralty Manual to read JH's paper on meteorology.
Sends tributes to memory of her father [Josiah Quincy]. Discusses [James] Grahame and [George] Bond, who both have died. Also mentions Harvard Observatory and American Civil War.
Asks whether Greenwich Board of Visitors should meet to answer communication from Admiralty or if a response could be circulated among Visitors and sent if it meets with approval.
Regarding the comet seen at Melbourne (Australia), may be the 1843 comet discussed by JH in his Outlines Astr. Comments on this.
Lists works JH should have received. Asks JH to take another look in his library. Has received more on meteors. Sees no objection to a higher terrestrial atmosphere. Will send Histoire des sciences mathématique et physique chez les belges.