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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.
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.
The valley has been swept with an inflammatory rheumatism. Is much pleased with [James] Graham[e?]'s history. Comments on his views. Who is to be the new president of JH's society? Hopes JH will visit him in the spring.
Outlines experiments for JC to carry out on 'agglutination of Earths for living Crucibles.'
Giving his reasons for wanting to borrow Christiaan Huygens's telescope. Postscript on recent observations with a prism.
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.
Reports on various strange changes in the position and color of Jupiter repeatedly observed by local persons known to be trustworthy. Can provide no explanation.
Requests JH to read his paper on the properties of chromium at R.S.L. meeting. Discusses the experiments described in the paper.
Has looked into JH's paper and found the reason for the discrepancy in the observations. Comments on this. Thinks the enclosed paper should be sent to JH. Would like to obtain cheap copies of the Greenwich observations if possible.
Encloses draft. On the point of leaving College for Staplehurst, where he will be pleased to see JH whenever he is in the neighborhood.