Has incorporated ES's suggestions into the draft report about [the University of] Kasan.
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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.
Has incorporated ES's suggestions into the draft report about [the University of] Kasan.
Comments on JF's article about glaciers and particularly on the solid, liquid, and other states of matter.
Forwards magnetic materials written by George Peacock. Hopes to meet with JH.
R.S.L. committee for considering continuance of magnetic observations has recommended that hourly observations be carried out at Falkland Islands, Newfoundland, and Vancouver Island. Alternate stations are Ceylon and Bermuda. Will not print all observations. Hopes colonial governments will participate. JH and William Whewell will be at [B.A.A.S. meeting in] Leeds.
R.S.L. committee recommends continuing three magnetic observatories at Falkland Islands, Newfoundland, and Vancouver Island.
Thanks PR for the sewerage book. Suggests a method of disposing of sewage in the river. Concerned about solid waste, which he thinks should be used as fertilizer.
Thanks for his valuable paper on galvanic stratification. Hopes to meet him at the B.A.A.S. meeting at Leeds. Encloses some copper salts and would be grateful for his comments on them. Hopes his health has improved.
Received another notice from General Reversionary & Trust Society regarding H. J. Hollier. JH asks again to be replaced as trustee for Mary Anne Hollier trust.
Humphrey Lloyd wants R.S.L. and B.A.A.S. committees on magnetism to meet together at B.A.A.S. meeting in Leeds. JH suggests inviting Edward Sabine.
Errors to be corrected in a new edition of one of JH's writings, including spelling AD's name in the French way.
Thanks for the lunar photographs; comments on other observations.
Acknowledges receipt of a communication about a comet/meteor from EC.
Mostly about arrangements which MH is making for JH's travel to, and accommodation in, Leeds for the B.A.A.S. meetings; JH wants extremely detailed instructions of just what to do. Goes on to comment on the health of the family and JH's own poor health.
Sends apologies to William Lassell for omission of discovery credit.
Is dismayed to find in the new edition of his own Outlines Astr. that he has attributed the discovery of Hyperion to W. R. Dawes without crediting WL; will have this corrected in a future edition.
Is trying to arrange a magnetic conference during the first few days of other meetings.
Gives a detailed account of the wanderings and visits of JH and son John; among other things they observed a comet at night.
Dismisses the lectures of a Mr. Parallax, who is going about the country lecturing against the basic views of science, and using JH's ideas in support.
Assures EW that earth is spheroidal and that sun and planets follow laws of gravitation, contrary to absurd claims of Mr. Parallax. Regrets that Parallax is using JH's name to support 'ridiculous opinions.'
Has now had time to examine the stereoscopic photograph of the moon. Thinks it is a wonderful effect and opens up a new field for terrestrial objects.