Lord Auckland [George Eden] has asked JH to edit Admiralty Manual and proposed that WH write section on botany. Would WH do this and when could WH complete it?
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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.
Lord Auckland [George Eden] has asked JH to edit Admiralty Manual and proposed that WH write section on botany. Would WH do this and when could WH complete it?
Has been requested by George Eden (1st Earl of Auckland) to contribute the botanical section to the manual to which JH alludes. Comments on this and the requirements for a manual of this type.
Likes what WH has outlined on botany for JH's Admiralty Manual. Suggests some additions.
Extent of WH's manuscript for JH's Admiralty Manual is fine. Please send it as soon as possible.
Has finished his paper for JH's Admiralty Manual and it only requires copying. Can reduce it if necessary.
WH's manuscript on botany for JH's Admiralty Manual has arrived and deserves praise. JH awaits three final manuscripts.
Sending his notes for JH's Admiralty Manual. Would have been earlier but he dislocated his left shoulder and had to have the services of an amanuensis.
Requests favor from WH on behalf of Richard Jones and his wife in light of her move to Richmond.
Please distinguish between the genus Wellingtonia and the genus Sequoia.
Regarding the reasons for the confusion in the nomenclature of the genus Wellingtonia and Sequoia. Comments on the aquatic Anacharis.
Found some old packets of seeds of Protea yesterday and wonders if he would like them to be sown to see if they would germinate. Comments on some of the plants in his garden. Tried some Peruvian potatoes.