Sends best wishes on JH returning to St. John's to teach; about books JG has read and some of his cases.
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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.
Sends best wishes on JH returning to St. John's to teach; about books JG has read and some of his cases.
Expresses gratitude for watching over JH's interests in his absence.
Upbraids JH for not writing, and announces the birth of his daughter, Anne.
Explaining his new theory of the atmospheres of the sun, planets, and stars.
Regarding CB's theory of the atmosphere of the sun, planets, and stars.
Talks about the law, especially now that JH has begun his study of it.
Regarding the vacant post of Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge. Has heard that the works of Leonhard Euler are being reprinted. Would he obtain the return of one of CB's books from Mr. Higman.
Attending E. D. Clarke's mineralogy lectures. JH's analysis of dioptase.
Regarding the vacant professorship of chemistry at Cambridge. Recent chemical experiments. Has obtained the book from Mr. Higman. Mr. Pulling was here recently.
Offering JH the position of assistant tutor at Michaelmas. [Draft from JH declining.]
Sends paper on fluxions written for Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Uses new formulas, dispensing with binomial theorem. Brings logarithmic and exponential formulae within power of common algebraic processes.
Hopes to call on him Monday. Is just off to Brighton for medical reasons. Will return to Cambridge later.
WW's elegant presentation of doctrine of limits is best basis for elementary treatise but not for extensive work, because it involves imaginary functions. Charles Babbage is making progress in theory of functional equations.
Is sending a problem in analysis for his comments. Gives solution to functional equations of the second degree. Hopes to see him when he passes on his way to Cambridge.
Idling time at Brighton. Gives equations for CB to study. Regarding the equipment he needs for experiments. Will not be able to return to professional activities for some time.
Answer regarding CB's problem in analysis. Will visit him soon. Getting apparatus ready to be moved to Cambridge.
Complains that JG had to discover from strangers that JH was ill.
Wished JH had visited him when in London. Gives some functional equations for his comments. Wants a form in order that he (CB) may be elected to the R.S.L.
Distressed to hear JH is giving up law; family news.
Reasons why he could not visit him when in London. Gives views on a paper of CB's. Fears he must give up the profession.