Urges WW either to be present for a meeting in preparation for the Magnetic Congress or to send written recommendations.
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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.
Urges WW either to be present for a meeting in preparation for the Magnetic Congress or to send written recommendations.
Comments on MF's experimental results when an electromagnetic field affects polarized light.
Hopes to add JF's name to B.A.A.S. Meteorological Committee, and to see JF at Cambridge meeting of the committee.
Because of the 'severe loss' recently suffered by Mrs. Whewell, Margaret Herschel will not stay at Trinity Lodge during the B.A.A.S. meeting. JH plans to go to Ely after the meeting.
Arranging a meeting of the Magnetic Committee to set the agenda for the magnetic conference to be held during the B.A.A.S. meetings in Cambridge.
Sends copies of plates and details about them, and expects printing of JH's Cape Results to begin early in 1846.
Cannot supply information requested about telescope until WH reminds him of the detailed information necessary for decision.
Forwarded WB's report to B.A.A.S. at Cambridge. Sends payment for expenses. Two German meteorologists will be at B.A.A.S. meeting.
Has arrived safely in Cambridge, and explains arrangements for MH to come some days later.
The meetings of the B.A.A.S. council have gone well so far; JH sends more details on travel arrangements for MH [see JH's 1845-6-17].
The weather is great in Cambridge for B.A.A.S. meeting; JH was at a small dinner party given by William Whewell, where the talk was mostly of architecture. JH refers to a battle in the Section A meetings between David Brewster and G. B. Airy.
The B.A.A.S. meetings are continuing, and JH has had an opportunity to talk to Charles Pritchard, who feels that their son William is doing very well at Pritchard's school; more about MH's travel arrangements [see JH's 1845-6-18].
At the B.A.A.S. meeting, JH spoke and was thanked by the most eloquent speaker he has ever heard, an American minister by the name of Everett. Everett is 'worthy of a much better country.' JH has also been busy in the magnetic committee.
Writes at the end of a very busy day of meetings, which was capped by a meeting in the Senate House, where Roderick Murchison spoke very eloquently, and Samuel Wilberforce thanked him even more eloquently, supporting the findings of geology in so doing. In the last part of the letter marked 'Private', JH expresses concern about the conduct of 'W. W.' [William Whewell?].
There has been a great disagreement between W. W.[William Whewell?] and S.[Adam Sedgwick?]. JH, together with others, has been instrumental in bringing the two back together again, at least for the time being.
B.A.A.S. resolutions include closing H.E.I.C. magnetic and meteorological observatories at Simla and Singapore but continuing those in Bombay and Madras. Propose magnetic survey of India Sea.
As president of B.A.A.S., JH forwards annual resolutions for prime minister's review. Especially requests continuing support for magnetic observations.
Sends copy of B.A.A.S. resolutions to fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, containing recommendation to continue magnetic and meteorological observatory there.
Informs of B.A.A.S. proposal to encourage by 'specific pecuniary reward,' improvement of 'self-recording magnetical and meteorological apparatus.' Outlines advantages of proposal.
Comments on JH's disagreement with the nebular hypothesis of Auguste Comte, and points out to JM that JH disagrees with some of JM's writings on physical science as well.