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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.
Ask Edward Sabine for authority to insert additional notes [on barometric observations] into report already at printer's. Does not advise publishing observations. Asked Howard Elphinstone to send observations to WB.
Has forwarded a parcel to JH, but wonders if he has received it as he has had no reply.
Since he forwarded the parcel he has changed his address.
Yesterday's letter was mistakenly sent to WB's former address. Sends copy.
JH's theory of barometric waves. Comparison with ocean tides. Non-trade winds follow laws of periodicity and are predictable, accounting for previously unexplained phenomena. Attributes rotating storms to interference of two or more wave trains. Will propose WB as director of new B.A.A.S. project to discover laws of weather behavior. Sends payment for WB's expenses. Never saw anything more beautiful than WB's 'Symmetrical Barometric Curve.'
Could he loan him the Russian observations. Recent readings of the barometer.
B.A.A.S. approved WB's employment by Magnetical and Meteorological Committee to explore atmospheric waves. Will send Russian observations tomorrow. Howard Elphinstone agrees to send his observations [at Ore, near Hastings]. Lists meteorology books.
Thanks for letter and loan of the books. Regarding the movement of waves of the atmosphere.
Sends Howard Elphinstone's barometer observations [at Ore, near Hastings].
Has received Howard Elphinstone's observations. Has had an interview with Edward Sabine who has arranged for observations to be forwarded to WB. Would like JH's views on publication of some of these observations.