Thanks JH for commentary on RP's Other Worlds than Ours. Responds to JH's comments, accepting most objections. Acknowledges his major debt to JH's writings.
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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 JH for commentary on RP's Other Worlds than Ours. Responds to JH's comments, accepting most objections. Acknowledges his major debt to JH's writings.
Would support the application for a grant [see JH's 1870-5-12], but would like to see some changes in the way calculations are made.
Refers to several items of correspondence, and then comments on the calculation of Gaussian earth-constants to a higher power than has been done to date.
The Council of the R.A.S. would like JH's opinion on the accompanying paper and drawing by Francis Abbott, and whether it should appear in the R.A.S.M.N.
Admits JH is correct in suggested correction of RP's statement regarding perturbations of Uranus. Suggests that JH urge astronomers to observe the solar corona carefully.
Will visit JH on 27 May.
Apologizes for delay in responding to JH. Wrote to JH yesterday about AM's plan to visit Collingwood.
Appreciates JH's opinion regarding variability of climate, although it disagrees with his own. His views are not provable and the question remains one of probability.
[Richard?] Proctor [?] agrees with JR's views on Cosmical Climates. Re-presents his theory because he feels he did not state it fairly in his earlier [1870-5-27] letter.
Sending letter from a firm of stockbrokers giving a reply to JH's query regarding the East India Dock shares.
Is grateful for his letter. Sends a report of the Geological Institute, which includes JH's notes on the founding of the Cambridge Analytical Society. Sends his own report on Homeric irons and on the R.S.L. catalogue of scientific papers. Austrian science was at a low ebb but is now improving.
Admits his misstatement in RP's Other Worlds than Ours concerning perturbation of outer planets. Shares JH's doubts about existence of Vulcan. Speculates on the extent of meteoric material in the solar system. Comments negatively on J. Norman Lockyer's views on meteors.
Regarding Alexander Herschel's paper on acoustical oscillations recently sent to G. A. Erman.
Gratified by JH's 'sympathy and approbation,' and that JH's writing and spirit remain 'firm' and 'fresh.'
Discusses the different strata of the ocean and [William] Carpenter's lecture on deep sea dredging. Is digging an artesian well.
Cannot give a definite answer regarding liability on the Dock stock without knowing the Act of Parliament under which the East India Company was incorporated.
Would he accept a volume of observations carried out at the Leyton Observatory?
Sends two copies of JH's 'macular conspectus.' Mr. Titterton was very pleased that JH approved of his work.
Sending JL's book Physical Geography (1870).
Received JH's note. TW's wife Amelia [Herschel] and baby fared poorly in Panama and California. China better now than in 1853-65. Constitution flimsy but still vital. Describes 'Mahometan insurrection.'