Would like JH's view on Thomas Maclear.
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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.
Would like JH's view on Thomas Maclear.
Suggests changes in statutes governing colleges.
Thanks JH for letter and concern shown during Edward Sabine's illness. He is recovering.
A note accompanying another of HP's meteorological publications.
On the evening of 4 Jan. he found a nebulosity in or near Draco that he has been unable to discover in any catalogue. Has discovered another red star in Taurus, which is not given in JH's list.
Delayed answering JH's letter until HH could find details of works by 'Göttingen Professor,' but has had difficulty in locating them. Any treatise connecting epidemics with fungous origins would be of interest. Will bring distressing medical case to attention of one of HH's committees. HH's Medical Notes and Reflections, 3rd edition (1855).
His manuscript arrived and has been dispatched to the printers with the necessary instructions. Regrets to hear that JH's labors are impeded by ill health.
His engagement at Kew will soon terminate. Regarding the grant for Kew and the position he holds there. Can JH inform him of the zodiacal light.
Would be happy to hear of any improvement in JH's health. Encloses a letter from Francis Jeffrey (Lord Jeffrey). J. S. Mill edited Jeremy Bentham's works in two volumes.
Queries regarding JH's star lists. Sending magnetic information from A. T. Kupffer. Regarding the distribution of nebulae.
Regarding the luminous rings recently observed in the solar system.
Regarding the delicate case of priority of investigation. Quotes example of Henry Warburton and John Brinkley.
Returns 'slips' with JH's corrections. Asks explanation of probability theory.
Has no information to send yet. JH should not be too hopeful of changing the appoint to Bengal of his son [William James].
Returns the slips received from Francis Jeffrey (Lord Jeffrey); would JH forward them to the printer with his instructions. His mathematical demonstration will be allowed enough room. Pleased to hear his deafness has been relieved.
Sends drawing and statement showing what they are about at the church. Would welcome any assistance from JH.
Further regarding the Gregorian calendar and comments on some of the questions involved in its interpretation.
Thanks for citing (18 months ago) John Brinkley's paper on 'General Term.' Heard that Augustus De Morgan notified JH of deductions HW drew from Brinkley's theorems, extending them into permutations and combinations. Re-read JH's ['On the Development of Exponential Functions' (1816)]. Asks where to buy JH's Examples in Finite Differences [1820] for HW's great-nephew [Howard Elphinstone].
Reports death of Francis Jeffrey. JH's letter to Jeffrey arrived too late. Mrs. Jeffrey will return to [Haileybury?] with WE.
Asks questions relevant to a series of books presenting science for juveniles.