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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.
A new committee on standards is to be created to oversee the preparation and measuring of appropriate standard measures; seeks JH's opinion about asking Francis Baily and W. H. Miller to do the accurate weighing and measuring.
Would be pleased if Francis Baily and W. H. Miller would agree to serve [see GA's 1843-3-9]; believes sufficient remuneration should be provided for these responsibilities, and comments on the desirability of a continuing standards committee.
Tells GA about a new comet becoming visible.
Covering letter to one by Edward Cooper regarding appearance and observations on new comet.