Clarifies meeting details [see JH's 1853-2-27].
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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.
Clarifies meeting details [see JH's 1853-2-27].
Does not believe that the technical weights of the Bank of England should be given the same legal status as primary, and official, weights, measures, and coinage [see GA's 1853-2-11].
Wants to visit the Royal Mint; the coinage/weight question is more complex than GA imagined [see GA's 1853-3-15]; seeks JH's opinion on part of a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Details of how coins are tested and stamped for weight. Procedures are not regulated, and variances are common. Encloses Mr. Miller's letter on decimal coinage. [JH annotation: 'Substance sent to Airy March 21 / 53 but altogether diff in form and wording.']
Responds with return of letter part and an invitation to the Royal Mint [see GA's 1853-3-21]; expands further on the coinage/weight problem.
Supports the report, but JH believes as an employee of the Treasury, he cannot sign the report on coinage to the Chancellor of the Exchequer; does not anticipate swift action on the report.
Understands JH's position [see JH's 1853-3-26]; expects the report will be taken to Parliament.
Asks JH to let an examination be made of the standard pound kept at the Royal Mint [see WM's 1853-6-8].
Informs GA of the discovery of an earlier standard pound weight found at the Royal Mint.
Some difficulty about locating a particular standard pound weight, and the letter requesting the use of it [see JH's 1853-6-20].
Is arranging a meeting to seal up and deposit one set of standards [see GA's 1853-6-21].
Explains why JH could not attend meeting [see GA's 1853-8-16]; hopes GA and family had a pleasant holiday.
Seeks instructions about return of the measures to the Royal Mint.
Drafting the Standards Commission report is taking up all of GA's spare time.
Asks GA about the best way to store standard measures [see GA's 1853-9-8].
Writes to JH to re-arrange a time for a meeting.
Agrees to new meeting time [see GA's 1853-9-14].
A note accompanying the first draft of the report of the Standards Commission, with a request for comment.
Does not know of the details of French or American coinage, but Augustus de Morgan has undertaken to find someone to help JH with this problem.
Is waiting for JH's comments on the first draft of the Standards Commission report [see GA's 1853-9-8].