Specifications for construction of iron gates and railings to be used in construction of new mint in Sydney. Send cost estimates to JH, who will appoint a construction superintendent.
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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.
Specifications for construction of iron gates and railings to be used in construction of new mint in Sydney. Send cost estimates to JH, who will appoint a construction superintendent.
Seeks current information about the selection process for the Melbourne University professorships [see GA's 1854-7-15].
Soldiers are suffering in this unhealthy country for want of occupation. Hopes he has been able to lighten his duties at the Mint. Administration seems inefficient in the supply to the troops.
Agrees to meeting date [see JH's 1854-8-14].
Cambridge [Philosophical] Society will publish HW's paper on self-repeating series. Suggests JH clarify some equations in new edition of [Examples of Finite Differences (1820)].
Agrees that JH should write to the Melbourne University authorities and point out some concerns [see JH's 1854-8-16].
Additional suggestions for improving clarity of equations in new edition of JH's [Examples of Finite Differences (1820)].
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.
Additional improvements for new edition of JH's [Examples of Finite Differences (1820)].
Inspect enclosed Treasury minutes regarding Robert Mushet, and inform CT if JH has objections. Encloses several papers on Turkish currency.
Just received JH's report on GS's paper on refrangibility of light. Elaborates on lavender and brown rays.
LC, from Parma [Italy], and Baron de Lutteroth wish to visit Royal Mint and meet JH. [JH annotation of 27 Aug.: Ordered Smith, Elder & Co. to give copy of JH's Cape Results to L. Caggiati for delivery to 'Prof. [Cobla Dinester?] of [Royal?] Observatory in Parma.]
Further discussion of need for two constants [see HW's 1854-[5]-11]. Sends first installment of errata HW found in JH's [Examples of Finite Differences (1820)]. Realizes JH's duties [at Mint] afford little time to publish new edition. Suggests printing only errata list to first edition.
The Cape Government is to employ a geologist to survey the mineral resources. Copper mines are all the rage at the moment and the value of shares is increasing rapidly. No further news of David Livingstone. Mounting of the transit circle is progressing.