The packing and shipping of goods to Collingwood is complete; JH will now attend to a few final details and then come to Collingwood, having spent the most horrible 'fortnight in my life.'
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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.
The packing and shipping of goods to Collingwood is complete; JH will now attend to a few final details and then come to Collingwood, having spent the most horrible 'fortnight in my life.'
Mostly about damage to furniture during shipment from Slough to Collingwood.
Thanks for excellent pictures WT sent. JH wishes JH had time for further experiments, especially on the 'thermic spectrum.' Praises [Robert] Hunt's results. Recommends experiment to WT.
Would FB deputize for him at the council meeting on Friday as he is unable to attend. Letter from F. W. Bessel regarding 61 Cygni. Has written to G. B. Airy regarding Thomas Maclear's paper.
Just moved [to Collingwood]. Will send information about ED's late son, Thomas Drummond. Recalls Drummond's fame and triangulation work on Irish Survey. Describes invention and first demonstration of Drummond Light.
Will forward RH's paper to the R.S.L.; intrigued by RH's results using mercury vapor to produce the image on exposed paper.
Thanks for series of portraits of members of Ipswich Museum.
Has a problem with the explanation of interference bands produced by mica being placed between the eye and prism-produced dispersion; the explanation is Baden Powell's.
Writes to supply GA with an address for a reply to JH's 1840-5-16.
Thanks GA for the time and trouble GA took in writing about interference bands [see GA's 1840-5-17]; JH's wife, Margaret, is making many visits to the dentist.
A note agreeing with GA about prism interference [see GA's 1840-5-20].
Formally reports on paper by Baden Powell on theory of dark bands found in solar spectrum. G. B. Airy agrees with JH's report.
How to reduce barometer observations and project them in curves. R.S.L. will provide table by H. C. Schumacher for this purpose. How to obtain 'law of decimal oscillations' for each station. WB's name will be affixed to results. JH needs receipt for observations, which belong to South African Literary and Philosophical Society.
Will be unable to attend Council meeting, but comments on issue to be discussed of whether R.S.L. should do anything respecting observatory at Hammerfest (North Cape).
R.S.L. business about an observatory at the North Cape in Sweden.
Gives JH's new address in Hawkhurst. Bring Mr. Bunt's planetarium when WW comes to Hawkhurst. Announces new photographic results.
Invitation to Hawkhurst. Has plenty of R.S.L. work to keep him from his observational work. Question of a new observatory. Has had letter from Wilhelm Struve regarding the fifteen-inch object glass.
R.S.L. will deviate from its intellectual purpose whenever it meddles in practical observations. Proper role for R.S.L. is to suggest goals and methods and to reward discoveries. Recommends discontinuing meteorological observations at Somerset House; other stations now provide better data. If R.S.L. insists on establishing a meteorological register, JH suggests one like that of J. F. Daniell.
Has no objection to the recipient's republication of the 'Examples of the Differ. & Integl Calculus by Mr. Peacock,' to which JH contributed.
Praises various photographs by WT and notes changes in some. Recounts optical experiments, recent and planned, by JH on rock-salt.