Announcing his election to the Astronomical Society. Would welcome any communications. Sends reports to M. A. Pictet and thanks for his communications on barometric height. Would be very pleased to be of assistance at any time.
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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.
Announcing his election to the Astronomical Society. Would welcome any communications. Sends reports to M. A. Pictet and thanks for his communications on barometric height. Would be very pleased to be of assistance at any time.
Thanks for his election to the Astronomical Society. Gives details of his recent activities and those of M. A. Pictet.
Sending 3 copies of a paper for his personal use and the Astronomical Society. Is grateful for the interest JH takes in his own work. Outlines recent astronomical activities of himself and M. A. Pictet. Intends visiting England.
Is about to leave for England with Alphonse de Candolle. Gives news of his latest astronomical observations. Lists people he has met or hopes to meet.
Recounts details of his visit to England. Gives his own recent astronomical observations. Is sending this via G. B. Airy in case JH has left.
Alphonse de Candolle would like some information on the region where JH is now residing [at the Cape]. Has read about JH's voyage and his work on the constellations. Gives his own recent astronomical observations.
Introducing Professor [L. F.] Wartmann of Lausanne University. Observations on the comet of Edmond Halley. Has had many afflictions during the winter. Has been working in the meteorological field lately. Death of [S.] L'Huil[l]ier in March. Would like Wartmann to see G. B. Airy.
Regarding the publication of his own observations on Halley's Comet; comments on these. [L. F.] Wartmann was very pleased with the results of his recent visit to England. Has been occupied with political problems. Looks forward to seeing the completion of JH's Cape observations.
Shortly coming to England with daughter and Madame Gerlach. Gives family news. Mr. Muller has some observations for the Memoirs. Emile Plantamour has succeeded him at the Observatory. Met G. B. Airy and his wife on their journey to Turin. Has also conversed with J. D. Forbes.
Introducing Professor Emile Plantamour, who is visiting England. Read JH's article on the rays of the solar spectrum with pleasure. Sends some articles by Plantamour from recent journals.
Introducing his nephew, Emile Gautier, Doctor of Mathematics. Sends a memoir of J. H. Maedler.
Informs JH that JH has been made an honorary member of the Physical and Natural History Society of Geneva; the Society thanks JH for a copy of his Cape Results. Comments on F. V. Mauvais's discovery of a comet and on the illness and death of Caroline Herschel. Will send comments on some of JH's astronomical work later.
Was pleased to receive his letter of the 28th. Proposes to visit JH on 3 June and will travel via Etchingham. Looks forward to meeting Lady JH and the family.