Hopes JH will be able to come to town to attend the next Council meeting. Hopes William Parsons (3rd Earl of Rosse) will be the next president.
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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.
Hopes JH will be able to come to town to attend the next Council meeting. Hopes William Parsons (3rd Earl of Rosse) will be the next president.
Will correct his contribution to JH's scientific manual. Discusses [Humphrey] Lloyd's apparatus for measurement of total force.
Encloses W. J. Hamilton's paper to show its extent. Please send proofs for Hamilton to correct.
Sending a large specimen of rock salt. Wants JH to make a lens for Mrs. Somerville, if possible. Discusses the political transitions that are occurring.
Thanks for the account of the large meteor. Has not heard of its observation from anyone else. Has seen a remarkable solar phenomenon of which he encloses sketch and details. Intends building a larger observatory and taking a partner.
Heard from George Bancroft that he was forwarding JH's book on the Southern Nebulae. Has not received it yet so presumes it must have been lost in transit. Sends some of his own astronomical papers for JH. Has made observations of Halley's Comet; gives details as he believes they are from a period for which JH lacks information.
The 'psychical epidemic' that is pervading Europe has invaded HS's country, and reason flies to the detriment of science.
'Enclosed' will answer JH's question. Will deliver dome [for Cape of Good Hope telescope] to Deptford Dock Yard.
Sending a paper in which he recommends JH's Prelim. Discourse; it is addressed chiefly to mechanics.
Is sorry to hear that he will be unable to be present next Saturday. Is desired by Council to express their regret that he will not become president of the R.S.L. Hopes William Parsons (3rd Earl of Rosse) will accept the presidency.
Sorry JH's family has influenza. Encloses letter from [John] Lefroy regarding actinometers.
Discusses problems with his paper on ethnology for JH's Admiralty Manual. Asks JH for fuller information on what is needed in JP's paper.
Has received his parcel and will pay particular attention to the points raised. Regarding using and corrections for the barometer. Will send manuscript to the Admiralty.
Wants to send JH a remembrance which his Aunt Caroline wanted JH to have. The obituaries in some of the papers are inadequate. The astronomical journals need to be provided with suitable information about Caroline Herschel.
Glad JH finds CP's paper suitable for Admiralty Manual. JP allows question is physiological but also ethnological; admits problems but sticks to his thesis. Would JH be willing to assume a leading role in a planned new journal somewhat similar to the Athenaeum, but giving more attention to science?
Will resume work on his 'Instructions' for the Admiralty Manual after the conclusions of his lectures. Will be able to forward it before the end of May.