Sends specimens of works which are to go to press. Has had an estimate for the printing. Nomenclature has to be settled first.
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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.
Sends specimens of works which are to go to press. Has had an estimate for the printing. Nomenclature has to be settled first.
Regarding the cost of printing the catalogues, and matters pertaining to them. Can FB give him any general table of processions. Has started work on the letter press of his own book.
Regarding bringing N. L. Lacaille up to a modern period. Regarding a table of precessions. FB's sister.
Has to come to town for a Trustee meeting of the British Museum and wonders whether it would be convenient for him to visit Tavistock Place to consult him on various matters.
It will be quite convenient for JH to visit him on Friday. Sister's health is improved. Delay in the celestial maps ordered.
Has a copy of F. W. A. Argelander's Uranometria. Comments on this in relation to the proposed revision of the constellations.
Has received his letter and incorporated the amendments in the paper.
Has compared all the stars in N. L. Lacaille's catalogue to the new observations and plan for the constellations.
Further regarding the revision of the constellations.
More on confused systems of star magnitudes used by Thomas Henderson.
Comments regarding the proposed revision of the constellations.
Sends proof sheets of the preface to the Star catalogue of the B.A.A.S., together with a few amendments. Has not sent the catalogue to press yet.
Justification for his nomenclature in the star catalogue.
Regarding the arrangement of 'Argo.'
Would like to hear from him regarding 'Argo.'
Gives his own views regarding 'Argo' and the renaming of the constellations.
Further regarding the arrangement of 'Argo.'
Regarding the arrangement of 'Malus.'
Returns F. W. Bessel's letter, part of which has been read to the R.A.S. Has he any communications for the R.A.S. as they are short of suitable material?
Regarding the revision of the nomenclature of the constellations. Its effect on the printing of the star catalogues.