Informs FB that it is JH's intention to resign as secretary of the R.S.L. at the next anniversary meeting.
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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.
Informs FB that it is JH's intention to resign as secretary of the R.S.L. at the next anniversary meeting.
Informs HK that JH intends to resign as secretary of the R.S.L.
Astronomical Society will lend instruments, including a Beaufoy Clock and a transit circle, to WS for his observations.
Further reasons why he cannot accept the position of Professor at London University.
Declines the offer of the Professorship of Higher Mathematics at the University of London. Wishes to have time to devote to research.
Letter of condolence on the death of CB's son Charles.
Thanks WT for optical equipment sent. Notes death of Augustin Fresnel. Has purchased a telescope from James South.
Hopes to meet JH in London, and to finish building for R.S.L. soon. Discusses various prisms for experiments. Mentions 'neat' process for drawing uranium from iron.
Is sorry to hear the distressing news. Offers suggestions to relieve Charles Babbage of his sorrows.
Business matters for the R.S.L.
Discusses WS's comparison of results with transit circle and Astronomical Society catalogue.
Comments on geodesical measurements being made in Ireland.
Has been able to destroy a large portion of the color of brown sugar by the use of chlorine. If these hints are of use to TH's friend, TH may convey them.
Comments on GA's work on the solar tables, GA's pending paper on eyepieces, and on the quality of observations made at Greenwich and Paris; GA is intending to repeat the experiment of swinging a pendulum in a mine, and JH believes the Board of Longitude can provide the equipment.
Tells AG that JH is a member of a committee looking for ways of making better glass, so AG should not reveal any secrets to JH. JH provides the names of the leading telescope-makers in London, whom AG may wish to contact.
Thanks for, praises, and comments on WH's 'Systems of Rays' paper. Says WH will have a distinguished career. Mentions other works and hopes to forward them with others he receives to WH.
Responds to WT's 1827-10-29. Sending JH's Light, which uses some of WT's publications.
Offers the correspondent's friend the information that JH has received a letter indicating that John Henslow is a formidable candidate for the professorship of botany.
Indicates the best way for the glass subcommittee [of the R.S.L.] to deal with the results of glass experiments at the Royal Institution [see MF's 1827-11-3].
Informs MF that JH has been called to serve on a grand jury and so may have to miss some glass subcommittee meetings. [This note enclosed the letter written by JH on 1827-11-6.]