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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.
Supports the remeasurement of N. L. Lacaille's geodetic arc in South Africa, giving a number of reasons for his support.
His views on the imperfections and lack of suitable instruments at the Cape Observatory.
[JH's abstract] Destinations for copies of JH's Cape Results addressed to FB.
Requests reimbursement for £316 JH paid to [Georg] Merz for two bills owed by astronomer royal.
Has been prevented from working for the past ten days due to pains in the head, but will send his manual to JH as soon as he can get it arranged and copied.
JH's article on 'Meteorology' [for the Admiralty Manual] is finished; JH will make some comments on aneroid barometers in the preface.
Returns a letter from Thomas Maclear to FB, and then JH expresses his concern about the state of health and work of Maclear.
A note expressing JH's thanks for allowing JH to read a letter from Thomas Maclear to FB; JH again expresses his concern for the welfare of Maclear.