Is grateful for the praise JH has given her photographic efforts. Intends to do a series of life-sized head photographs. Is anxious about Henry Taylor, who has been overworking in the colonial cause.
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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.
Is grateful for the praise JH has given her photographic efforts. Intends to do a series of life-sized head photographs. Is anxious about Henry Taylor, who has been overworking in the colonial cause.
Informs JH, Charles Babbage, and James South that they are the surviving original members of the R.A S. Requests JH write an account of the R.A.S.'s founding. Discusses the evidence of the 'personal will' of God in creation.
Announces a committee meeting for a volunteer group.
Thanks for his letter. Agrees that the stones of Stonehenge must have come from the neighborhood. The chips in the barrows must have come from the hewn stones of Stonehenge.
Praises JH's essay 'The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre.' Believes C. P. Smyth's theories concerning the Great Pyramid being a standard of measurement.
Offers to purchase scientific manuscripts for JH at a sale in London.
Asks to visit JH today.
Says William Whewell has fallen from his horse and has been injured. Thanks JH for a paper he signed for the R.S.L.
Comments against the paper of Ernst Klinkerfüss about observations of dispersed star light [see JH's 1866-2-24].
William Whewell has gotten up to walk several times. The left side of his body and face is still 'not quite right.'
Comments on the state of William Whewell's health, and about the theories of E. F. W. Klinkerfüss [see JH's 1866-2-27].
Has sent the 1854 Greenwich Magnetical and Meteorological Observations. Illness of the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (William Whewell). Undulating theory of stars in motion.
Expressing the thanks of her mother for signing the memorial.
William Whewell slightly improved. Dr. [George] Humphry has been elected professor of Anatomy. Is indebted to JH because of the paper he sent to the R.S.L.
Further comments on Ernst Klinkerfüss's paper, in response to JH's 1866-2-28.
Asks JH to recommend a reviewer for a popular book on astronomy.
William Whewell seems to have permanent damage to his brain. Whewell has an article in MacMillan's Magazine regarding Auguste Comte's philosophy.
A relation of JF has a handsome portrait of a William Herschel dressed in Jewish costume, to dispose of and wonders if JH would be interested in it. [Note by Herschel that this is Rabbi Herschel and no relation to the family.]
William Whewell's symptoms are worse, but his mind is still active.
William Whewell's nieces have little hope for his recovery. Whewell is anxious about his article on Grote's Plato for MacMillan's Magazine.