Will endeavor to obtain information on the Dock shares. Maria (HH's wife and JH's daughter) and infant are doing well.
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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.
Will endeavor to obtain information on the Dock shares. Maria (HH's wife and JH's daughter) and infant are doing well.
Is grateful for his note. Would like to be certain of W. C. Wells's theory before he revises his opinion. His original paper was much larger. Gives some examples where he thinks Wells is in error.
Wants to compare Mr. Titterton's photographs of the spot groups to [Warren] de La Rue's. Has tried to determine if some localities regularly have spots.
Cannot afford fees he must pay to be ordained. Asks for financial assistance. Includes letters from a tutor and a professor.
Sends report of Edward Sabine's 'conversaziones' of 12 Mar. and 23 Apr. Mrs. Birtwhistle wrote from Peking on 2 Feb.
Forwards letter from G. A. Erman to JH and two papers by Erman. AM wants to visit JH to learn of prospects for Erman before AM leaves soon for zoological and magnetic observations in Malay Archipelago.
Thanks for the photographs WD sent for the dates requested in JH's 1870-4-23.
Thanks for sending G. A. Erman's two papers on terrestrial magnetism and letter to JH. Will forward these to G. G. Stokes with recommendation that B.A.A.S. continue funding for reduction work of H. J. R. Petersen. Awaits AM's visit to Collingwood.
Forwards letter from G. A. Erman of Berlin requesting that B.A.A.S. fund [H. J. R.] Petersen's study of terrestrial magnetism.
Writes to support grant request from Georg Erman of Berlin to allow Erman to do calculations on magnetism observations from circumnavigation of world.
Thanks JH for mention of him in Outlines Astr. Sends detailed observations of Alpha Centauri system.
Describes difficulties in producing glass pen and attaching it to pendulum to produce precise curves for aligning equatorial [telescope mount]. Sent artistic sample to JH's wife.
Acknowledges receipt of letter and papers from G. A. Erman.
Thanks RP for sending RP's Other Worlds than Ours and supplies comments, some favorable, on numerous claims made therein, e.g., on RP's theory that Jupiter and Saturn are hot and to some degree luminous.
Desires permission to present JH's 'diagram of "macularity"' to the R.A.S.
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.
About a grant to support [H. J. R.] Petersen while he carries out the reduction of terrestrial magnetic observations.
The research shows no particularly 'maculiferous' area on the sun, but WS may, as WS requested, present 'data' to the R.A.S. Has noticed two new spots on helioautographs on 20 and 27 April.
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.