Has the opinion regarding Oxford of S. J. A. Compton (Lord Northampton). This will make his absence less consequential if he cannot attend the Council meeting.
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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 the opinion regarding Oxford of S. J. A. Compton (Lord Northampton). This will make his absence less consequential if he cannot attend the Council meeting.
RH's experiments are extremely interesting and deserve to be pursued. Comments on experiments made by Michael Faraday and others relating to the formation of crystals in a magnetic field and the effect such crystals have on polarized light.
Received P. S. Laplace's [book] from Paris and sent it to Mr. Stewart as JH directed.
Council will meet Friday 16 January. Does not think [Roderick] Murchison has returned. [Alexander von Humboldt's] Cosmos was reviewed well.
Thanks RS for his brochure [on the affairs of the Liverpool Observatory?].
Thanks her for her hospitality. Discusses letter read at Geological Society the previous night. Asks that Mrs. [G. B.] Airy's picture be returned.
Sends his last year's observations of falling stars and comments on them. Has he seen the new planet [Astrea]? Sends some new songs of his own composition.
Sending some extra large trout caught by the Miller, together with the 'local' trout so that he can compare them.
Has entered JH's name for Foreign Secretary of the R.A.S. and explains the circumstances. On his observations and method of observation of the recently discovered asteroid Astrea.
Is too busy to accept the office of Foreign Secretary of the R.A.S. Says he cannot even keep up with his correspondence at home. Has been forced to give up foreign correspondence altogether.
Asks for some specifics of the mounting and proceeds to explain how the mountings will work [see JH's 1845-11-25].
A notice of meeting of the B.A.A.S. coal distribution map committee.
[James C.] Stewart has written to suggest the establishment of botanical gardens at the Cape. JH supports this idea. Would WH also?
Circular Magnetic results. Observations of solar spots. Determining Longitude.
Has procured some glass rod fit for the experiment. Comments on the results. [Robert] Hunt has been working on crystallization and magnets and has told him of JH's interest. Grieves to hear of his illness. His paper in JH's hands will be left for the time being until he has more time.
Regarding a botanical garden at the Cape and suitable staff. Would like to join with JH in a memorial to the Colonial Office.
Observatory work slowed since William Mann's absence due to head injury. C. P. Smyth's replacement not yet arrived. Regrets lack of assistants; wants to complete triangulation at Bushman Flat.
Describes mistakes made by R.S.L. in sending letters to [Christopher] Hansteen through Stockholm.
Sends paper on storms. JH's advocacy of jointly progressive and rotary character of storms has been supported by new evidence.
The goods from Collingwood arrived safely; JH has seen and called on various people; Emma Stewart is 'poorly.'