Urges WL to make public his observations of the seventh satellite of Saturn as Otto Struve is about to announce his observation of the same body.
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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 WL to make public his observations of the seventh satellite of Saturn as Otto Struve is about to announce his observation of the same body.
Asks Archbishop of Canterbury [William Howley] to accept JH's resignation. Impossible to give adequate attention to JH's duties as trustee [of British Museum].
Looks forward to seeing AS at Norwich. Hopes he is recovering. Caroline Herschel has died.
Comments on all of GA's instructions for ship's officers [see JH's 1848-1-10], mostly suggesting some additions about meteor showers.
Thinks the building changes proposed [see GA's 1848-1-21] are fine; explains JH's position on the whole matter.
Accepts invitation to Norwich. For Geological Instructions, JH will wait to hear from [George Eden,] Lord Auckland. If necessary, he will consult [Charles] Darwin regarding the Instructions.
Informs ES [President of the Royal College of Surgeons] that JH is unable to attend the Hunterian Oration and the dinner.
Regrets to hear of retirement of Spencer Compton (Marquis of Northampton) from R.S.L. presidency. Is grateful that ES and others wish him to hold office temporarily, but regards it as 'impossible.'
Some comments about dates related to JH's aunt Caroline Herschel.
Waited for legal documents from L. Kirchoff before responding to AK's letter announcing death of JH's aunt Caroline. Named AK's son Adolph as JH's attorney. Authorizes disposition of CLH's papers and possessions. Approves tombstone inscription by Mr. Müller. Donates portrait of William Herschel to Mrs. Groskopff.
JH comments on quality of Georg Merz object glasses.
Agrees that some of JH's suggestions about meteor showers were probably unnecessary [see GA's 1848-1-29].
Is aware of T. J. Hussey's drawings [see GA's 1848-2-1]; needs information about P. A. Hansen's lunar theory for an appreciation JH is to provide.
Some additional details about JH's aunt Caroline [see JH's 1848-1-27].
JH must arrange for the celebration of Bishop's Observatory. Needs information on its equipment, achievements, and staff, e.g., on W. R. Dawes's and J. R. Hind's observations. Will contact Hind.
Needs clarification about John Lubbock's planetary theory; thanks for G. B. Airy's lunar reductions.
Returns [Max] Weisse's manuscript. He must say something about it and so has swallowed 'whole hog' what RS had written about it. Will make a mess [in his R.A.S. address] of John Lubbock's work on perturbations.
Lists a number of people JH called on but all were out. Received a gold medal with the head of the King of the Netherlands on it. Also received a 'very superb and truly Imperial' ring from 'the Duke.' [This, presumably, is the diamond ring he received from the Emperor of Austria.]
Regarding the originator of the R.A.S. Regarding his duties as trustee and other legal matters.
Gives directions for and raises questions concerning WW's contribution to JH's Admiralty Manual.