Seeks current information about the selection process for the Melbourne University professorships [see GA's 1854-7-15].
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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.
Seeks current information about the selection process for the Melbourne University professorships [see GA's 1854-7-15].
Agrees to meeting date [see JH's 1854-8-14].
Agrees that JH should write to the Melbourne University authorities and point out some concerns [see JH's 1854-8-16].
Rumor has it that Australia is short of cash; can only wait and see [see GA's 1854-8-17].
Responds to JH's interim arrangements [see JH's 1854-8-18].
Results of observation of transits at Greenwich and Paris.
Encourages JH to view the change being proposed [see JH's 1854-9-6] as an improvement.
Sends on a letter from George Peacock, who is quite opposed to the proposed changes [see JH's 1854-9-6]; GA would be interested in JH's response.
Informs JH that GA (and his assistants) have been making pendulum observations in a coal pit.
Responds to JH's request [see JH's 1854-10-17].
Inviting JH, together with other members of the R.A.S., for dinner on the following day.
Appear to be answers to specific queries about examinations and tutors [at Cambridge?].