It appears that J. T. Cooper would be willing to work in the performing of glass experiments. If this seems acceptable, then a meeting of the glass committee should be called.
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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.
It appears that J. T. Cooper would be willing to work in the performing of glass experiments. If this seems acceptable, then a meeting of the glass committee should be called.
Regarding various publications for distribution.
Will not attend council meeting. JH comments regarding the nomination for foreign membership [of R.S.L.?] of Teodoro Monticello.
Announcement of Baden Powell's election to the Savillian chair of Geometry.
May not be able to separate double stars with the twenty foot reflector. Is reviewing nebulae. Regrets [Josef] Fraunhofer did not live to see WS's work. Speaks of standard catalogue of 2881 stars as joint labor of all observatories. Interested in bright stars with minute companions.
Sends his reasons for not writing. Includes results of his readings of Etna and observations of the comet.
Some R.S.L. business matters.
Asks WW to sign a certificate on behalf of the election of [William] Ritchie to the R.S.L. and to ask Adam Sedgwick to sign also.
Asks DB to sign a certificate for the candidature of William Ritchie for admission to R.S.L.
Argues that neither CB nor his friends should in any way act to create difficulty at future R.S.L. meetings, as that will allow those attacked to resign with dignity. Rather elect someone else at the next anniversary meeting.
Pleased that JE will continue the Berlin Ephemeris. Makes various recommendations regarding it. Hopes that someone will reduce Thomas Brisbane's observations of southern heavens.
Has burned the certificate signed by WW and JH on behalf of election of [William] Ritchie to the R.S.L., because JH, as a R.S.L. secretary, should not endorse candidates. Discusses recent Geological Society meeting.
Comments on behavior of Charles Babbage [see JG's 1827-2-1].
Talks at length about the operation of the Board of Longitude and of procedures GA should know if he wishes to present proposals to the Board; JH seems to be trying to calm down GA.
Regarding support for Charles Babbage at Oxford.
Notified Georgiana Babbage that two or three electors for professorship at Oxford favor Charles Babbage. JH not free to name them. Death of father may alter Babbage's desire for position. Meanwhile Mrs. Babbage asks that we keep 'any one favourable to C. on neutral ground.'
Asks GA about the purpose of the request for the use of Christiaan Huygens's telescope in the possession of the R.S.L.; JH comments on the accuracy of James South's astronomical observations.
Outlines experiments for JC to carry out on 'agglutination of Earths for living Crucibles.'
Has had a collection of Astronomical Observations from K. L. C. Rümker. Should these be printed and has Rümker the sanction of TB for this kind of observation from the Observatory?
Proposes an adjustment in the proportions of the ingredients in the next glass-making experiment.