Would like his opinion on whether an officer should be sent to the Cape to be in charge of the compensation bars sent there recently by the Board of Ordnance.
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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 his opinion on whether an officer should be sent to the Cape to be in charge of the compensation bars sent there recently by the Board of Ordnance.
Agrees with FB and others about the need for adequately trained men to be sent out to remeasure N. L. Lacaille's arc.
Is forwarding a note about an instrument of [Louis] Daguerre's.
Sending a letter of Basil Hall's, which please return when he has read it.
Enclosing letters from Thomas Maclear so that he may see all he says about his meteorites. Will keep the meteorite until he tells him what to do with it.
Thomas Maclear has sent him another Cape meteorite. Believes that JH gave part of a meteorite to the B.M. so does not see why this one should be sent there.
Sends hourly meteorological register for 21 Sept. in Bahama Islands. [Partial sentence about] Equipment reaching J. C. Ross at Madiera.
Enclosing a page and a drawing, which may be of interest to him. Best wishes for Christmas.